On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:16 PM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 Joseph Knight <joseph.9...@gmail.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
