FrediFizzx wrote:My question would be; can you put that site all in one PDF file for download and printing?
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friend wrote:FrediFizzx wrote:My question would be; can you put that site all in one PDF file for download and printing?
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I understand your concerns. I'm in the process of converting it to PDF, but it's difficult to configure the math equations for printing. I can't get them all within the margins. However, the website (http://logictophysics.com/QMlogic.html) has been designed to make it easy to review. When I make a reference to a previous equation, that reference can be mouseover'd to view the equation it refers to. That way you don't lose your place when you scroll back to find the reference. Just mouseover the reference to see the equation itself. Hyperlinks are opened in a new tab so the original tab is undisturbed. And I also use cookies to keep track of your place in the document so you can come back to it to resume where you left off. So please try to read the website and let me know if you have any problems with it. In the mean time I'll work on the PDF version. Thanks.
FrediFizzx wrote:It is just too much for me to read on the computer but looks interesting. For this stuff, I like to print out and read whilst lying on the sofa (I'm a real old-timer ). Then I can also make notes in the margins.
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friend wrote:Any questions, yet? Did you get stuck anywhere? Do I need to put more or less information in some sections?
FrediFizzx wrote:friend wrote:Any questions, yet? Did you get stuck anywhere? Do I need to put more or less information in some sections?
Doesn't all of mathematics come from logic anyways? I believe that is what my logic course said more than 50 years ago. I think I still have that textbook around here somewhere. More information is always good. Still reviewing what you have done. Got sidetracked a bit with revising a paper.
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friend wrote:FrediFizzx wrote:friend wrote:Any questions, yet? Did you get stuck anywhere? Do I need to put more or less information in some sections?
Doesn't all of mathematics come from logic anyways? I believe that is what my logic course said more than 50 years ago. I think I still have that textbook around here somewhere. More information is always good. Still reviewing what you have done. Got sidetracked a bit with revising a paper.
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Russel and Whitehead tried to prove that all arithmetic is derived from logic. But Kurt Godel proved that arithmetic is incomplete (assuming it's consistent). I only have a passing familiarity with the effort of these gentlemen. So I'm not completely persuaded yet. Still, I don't think Godel's incompleteness theorem will prove any of our present math statements wrong, only that there may be other theorems that are true, though not provable with our present math. So what does that mean for us? Are there math statements lurking close by in construction to our present math theorems that are true though not provable by us? Do we have any other choice but to describe physics using math? I think the only relevant question is why we should use this or that math in our physical theories. And perhaps I made some progress in that regard.
gill1109 wrote:
In pure mathematics one can go for absolute truth but on the other hand those absolute truths are mere tautologies.
Joy Christian wrote:gill1109 wrote:Nice mathematics, bad physics.
friend wrote:Any questions, yet? Did you get stuck anywhere? Do I need to put more or less information in some sections?
jreed wrote:I wouldn't say I'm stuck, but I"m having difficulty seeing what you are trying to get at. After several pages of Boolean algebra, you come up with the Kronecker delta. Then go on to integrating Dirac delta functions. These are well known in physics and used extensively. This expression is manipulated by adding time, imaginary numbers, and notation until you come up with something that looks like a path integral. Would you have obtained this form without knowing what a path integral should look like? I don't see Boolean algebra adding anything, since when physics is done logic is normally followed.
jreed wrote:Friend, you are certainly a persistent person. I did a search for quantum physics from logic, and found you, or someone else, promoting these same ideas on several physics blogs for about the past 10 years. If these theories haven't caught on yet, I don't think there's much to be gained by continually posting them.
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