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I think you better apply for a patent now, before it's too late. However, keep it either to "lightyears" or to the "other parts of the solar system" as they are not the same.

I believe that all Rumi writings have been translated to English and perhaps the translations can be found on the Internet. Just give us a name. However, links to the Farsi sources would probably do too, as Google translate works with Persian.

I think that for some of them that understanding included the knowledge of necessity to move on. You are right and as was said above, time and place reference are important.

Not exactly. Both require a source of energy to account for the accelerated expansion, albeit for different reasons.

Yes, but with caveats. Are you familiar with the notion of 'cherry-picking'?

Some of them were nomads. So, travel was their way of life.

Yes.

Sperm usually need to swim, often against current... @Sensei ^ is right. (x-posted with @sethoflagos)

What time and place do you have in mind? It was not one continuous process.

If "finite universe" means a universe with a finite number of states, then you are right: there is a largest number that describes all of it and any number larger than that one is unnecessary in that universe.

Yep.

Finite on every step, but unbounded. E^3, E^4, E^5, etc.

I see. (It still has nothing to do with my comment to which the secret ballots thing was a reply, but it doesn't matter anymore -- ancient history.)

But then there are triplets of events, pairs of causal relations, quadruplets, combinations of events and relations, etc. which all have their various roles, and the count goes up and up, unbounded. Yes, I understand now much better what your OP is about. Not storing information or representing it, but about relation between the numbers and the real world.

If there are E events, then there are E2 pairs of events, which represent, e.g., causal relations between the events. E2 > E.

Yes.

I think I understand now. And tend to disagree. I think that any number can be mapped onto something in the real world.

I'm trying to understand this metaphor. Maps of what?

It is off topic, but I'm curious to find out if they in fact are. I don't know though how it is measured. Why this should be the question?

Anyway, logical paradoxes are not representation. There are ways to avoid logical paradoxes, also described in your linked article. In any case, a number is independent of representation, not defined by it. Different representations can represent the same number, if their string lengths and time limits are large enough.

Yes, instead of extending the alphabet we can extend the string length boundary. We also can keep alphabet and string length boundary constant and extend the representation time boundary. All of these allows to extend the largest representable number. However, if all three are fixed, I think a largest representable number exists. If we allow for logical paradoxes to be representations, then there is a simpler way to represent any number, e.g., "The number twice as big as the largest number we thought was possible."

This constitutes an extension of the alphabet -- re:

I think that for any given alphabet, if both string length and representation time are bounded, then there exists largest representable number. If either one of them is unbounded, then the representable numbers are unbounded as well.

Thank you for the clarification. Reading this thread, I started to suspect that there is one in UK.

I think I understand the source of our miscommunication. I don't know what "to be stupid" means except for the medical situations such as dementia. I can understand what "stupid behavior" and "stupid decision" are, though. I certainly don't want to act stupidly or to make stupid decisions. I could guess that "to be stupid" means to act stupidly on average, i.e., more often stupidly than not. In this case, no, I don't want that.