On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:16 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 Joseph Knight <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > True or False: COMP implies that any fundamental physical constant is >> > non computable? > > > I still don't know exactly what "COMP" means but about 1860 Maxwell computed > the speed of light and that is certainly a fundamental constant, not only > that but his mathematics said that computed speed of light would always be > the same regardless of the speed of the observer or of the source of the > light. But of course Maxwell didn't start from zero, he had to know what the > values of the magnetic constant and the electric constant are, and as far as > we know those numbers can only be obtained from experiment. At the time > electricity and magnetism didn't seem to have anything to do with light but > Maxwell showed that they did.
Hi John, I'm curious about your views TOE-wise. This is a honest question. What is reality according to John K. Clark? What is consciousness? Cheers, Telmo. > John K Clark > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
