Is 10^122 or 10^1000 large enough? Richard
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12 Apr 2013, at 16:24, Richard Ruquist wrote: > > Mathematics itself seems rather magical. > For instance the sum 1+2+3+4+5.....infinity = -1/12 > > > Well, with some convergence criteria! > > > > And according to Scott Aaronson's new book > when string theorists estimate the mass of a photon > they get two components: one being 1/12 > and the other being that sum, so the mass is zero, > thanks to Ramanujan > > If that sum is cutoff at some very large number but less than infinity, > does anyone know the value of the summation.? > > > A very large number. > > Bruno > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:29:51 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: >> >>> >> >>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> > If matter is deterministic, how could it behave in a random way? >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> It couldn't. >> >> >> >> >> >> Are you saying then that matter is random, or that it is neither >> random nor >> >> deterministic? >> > >> > Matter behaves randomly, but probability theory allows us to make >> > predictions about random events. >> >> In my view, randomness = magic. >> The MWI and Comp are the only theories I've seen so far that do not >> require magic to explain observed randomness. >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > Stathis Papaioannou >> > >> > -- >> > 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. >> >> >> > > -- > 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. > > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > 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.
