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  1. Having carefully side stepped all my questions by addressing things I did not say how about answering the questions I did ask ? For instance I said nothing about probability. Looking more deeply now at probability, it is evident you don't undersatand some basic facts about probability. Firstly the probabilities 1 or 0 are different from all other values. Introducing a probability other than one of these two values automatically implies there must be more than one possibility. This is because the probabilities of all possibilities must add up to exactly 1 if something is to happen. We handle this by moving from individual values to what is called a probability distribution, which mathematically is a function not a value.. This may be a continuous or discrete function, with finite or infinite domain, but bounded codomain. This is different from genuine indeterminism since every possibility posseses a probability. No additional dimensions are need for this.
  2. Where is it written that the ground state must necessarily be the vacuum state ?
  3. Agreed repetition does not constitute proof. I have already told you twice that your understanding and statement of logic is incorrect in your definition 2. You tried incorrectly to support your definition 2 with an example from the real world. There is even a meteorological term from the real world that negates your example - virga. You offered another real world example instead, to which I can think of many real world situations that continue to negate your real world support. In purely theoretical logic it is the easiest thing in the world to create a statement which is both (or neither) true nor false at the same time. You can also make logic gate circuitry to demonstrate this. I don't see why I should reply to your questions, since you don't reply to mine. If and when you deign to reply to my questions I will tell you how to create such statements in logic.
  4. Which may be found in the WAG's guide to the Karma Sutra 😄
  5. My wife asked AI for the box office phone number of our local theatre. 😄
  6. Yes it is possible, and in fact happened several times recently in my back garden with the unusual weather conditions lately.
  7. Not sure there ever was a 'mother' of science or mathematics. Women were very much in the minority in years gone by. Most authorities acknowledge Aristotle as the father of science, for some of the reasons others have all ready given. As regards women Hypatia of Alexandria was probably the first, and for a long time only, female mathematician but she was not a founder as such, and died a tragic death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia Here is Aristotle encapsulated
  8. No, c applies to a vacuum. Or are you suggesting that there is no space inside a crystal ?
  9. First the bolded bit is not accurate. I did say in my that it is worth looking into the difference between entanglement and superposition and the connection between the two as well. I suggest a good way to do this is to study the difference between electtron spin resonance and nuclear magentic resonance spectroscopy. Both cases provide what I consider the most rock solid examples of entanglement as a result of superposition, but the Pauli exclusion principle only applies to ESR.
  10. What I am saying with the curry and the chef is that space needs to have the qualities /characteristics/properties the users requires for his needs. But some other user may have different requirements and so will have a different meaning for 'space'. As a relativity specialist, Mordred is OK to choose space as just volume. My container and separator description allows a user to put things in and take things out of the space and not forgetting the separator function, do this in the right order or configuration at the right time.
  11. I see my curry hasn't gained much flavour favour. 😄 Pity since no one seems to have caught my analogy. Physicists and Mathematicians have very different definitions. There are, in fact, many different spaces some real and material some abstract. So it make sense to qualify the word with additional phraseology to convey the particular description the users wishes to employ. Mordred used to say space is just volume. I like to think I can distill the essence of the idea as a container and separator. Does anyone disagree that the white space on your screen or page is real ?
  12. So let me see the steps in your disproof of Godel. Otherwise it is just an unsupported claim.
  13. The implications are that it would disprove Godel's Theorems. Have you achieved that ?
  14. QM concerns material objects. I am not sure there are any non material objects subject to QM. In Mathematics we have axioms, in Physics we have principles. The fundamental principle we need here is the Principle of Least Energy. A system of material objects acts to attain minimum energy. Using this principle, mathematics can be derived to explain why fluids flow, why structures stand or fall, why hot objects cool off, why chemicals bond, why chemical reactions happen and much more. The mathematics can be used to predict what will happen (though humans do not always get if right). I said energy, but energy (which is a property of material objects) may be possessed in various ways. For a system of material objects one of these ways is configuration energy. If a system can minimise its energy by reconfiguration it will do so unless constrained in some way. It is this process which drives activity amongst sub atomic particles in a manner most readily described by QM.
  15. This is a no then, you don't actually know what the axioms of QM are. You have stated no axioms that I can see, consequently they are all missing. But I am only looking for the main one. Einstein need two for relativity.
  16. I agree in principle, but I think it is even more complicated than that. Here is an analogous but much easier question. What is curry ? Well there are as many answers to this as there are chefs.
  17. Having carefully side stepped all my questions by addressing things I did not say how about answering the questions I did ask ? For instance I said nothing about probability. You claim that you are So surely you should know and be able to state what the foundations currently are ? You can't do a reevaluation without this so how will you ? You can't have a theorem until you have some axioms or principles to derive it from. You appear to be trying to work arse backwards.
  18. Thank you for replying. I agree that tree planting can significantly affect climate. The Great Green Wall project is showing tangible benefits in subsaharan Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)#:~:text=The%20Great%20Green%20Wall%20or%20Great%20Green,from%20Djibouti%20City%2C%20Djibouti%20to%20Dakar%2C%20Senegal. This is without the need for energy intensive cooking of wood. On that energy this same region of course is ideal for using solar power as a source. Where would you plant your trees ?
  19. 1953 Louis Sokoloff 1980 Raichle 2001 Raichle and Schuman 2003 Raichle and Gusnard 2007 Malia mason Current Raichle Greicius and Buckner 2008 Source Douglas Fox The Secret Life of the Brain New Scientist Collection 2013
  20. I note you haven't understood what superposition is all about as the Copenhagen interpretation (which I do not agree with either) is not required for superposition. I would be interested if you were to tell us what you regard as the fundamental basis of QM ? That is what is QM about and what is its governing principle ? I am totally comfortable with the same principle that governs non quantum mechanics and in fact underlies most processes in this universe. This leads to ready calculation in Physics, Chemistry, Applied mathematics and many other sciences. +1
  21. Good night all I had enough time wasting.
  22. But they haven't gone unanswered. For example You asked how can space time curve and I told you. But you have yet to reply. I find the phrase 'configuration is fine with me' rather slap happy when one considers that science is a precise subject (as far as it can be). What would you think of a doctor who gave you parabenzedrine instead of paracetamol and casually said well they both begin with para ?

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