Re: Survival langauge

Hedberg wrote:

> >Purl Gurl wrote:

> >>Long before those discoveries, Einstein quips,

> >>"I am convinced that He does not play dice."

> A more accurate quote might be, "God does not play dice with the
> universe," though I can't quickly find a source to verify this.


Hedberg, there are two related quotes credited to Einstein,

"God does not play dice."

"Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells
me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it
hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any
case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice."

For his second quote, he is speaking of God.

Between those two, a morphed quote has come about,

"God does not play dice with the universe."


> I haven't kept up with experiments involving what we know as "Bell's
> Inequalities" for a number of years, and my understanding of the
> problem was from the perspective of a graduate student in electrical
> engineering and not that of a physicist or mathematician. But,
> doesn't the bulk of the empirical evidence (eg experiments by Alan
> Aspect) indicate that Einstein's intuition about gambling gods was
> wrong?

Nope. Personal opinion of course, but it is we do not yet understand
the math involved. Numbers cannot be argued.

I cite an example in a different article of discovery our Universe is
not chaotic, rather the math involved is so complex we have only
recently come to understanding.

Another example is thought there is a lack of sufficient mass in our
Universe to collapse it, other words, an expanding Universe is the
rule. This is defeated by recent discovery of dark matter and string
cosmology. There is now sufficient mass to eventually collapse our
Universe. These discoveries are made through math.

Quirks and Quarks are another subject of interest which propose
defiance of known mathematical laws and physical laws.

Achilles and the tortoise, Zeno's Paradox is another classic.

Eventually, as we discover more, as we become more sophisticated,
we learn what once was a paradox, is simply complex mathematics.

You cannot argue numbers. One is one throughout our Universe,
even upon passing an event horizon of a black hole.

Numbers are immutable, numbers cannot be changed. We can
change formulas, we can create contradiction, but in the end,
numbers remain the same and explain all.


Purl Gurl
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