On 17 December 2013 15:33, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:28 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > "My point, such as it is, is that we can use the same maths for both the > Newtonian domain in which things behave "roughly according to common sense" > and the quantum domain in which they very much don't. The fact that the > same maths applies to these domains, which as you pointed out are wildly > different, at least implies that maths has an independent (or at least > physics-domain-independent) existence. Hence it probably isn't just > something we made up to work in one domain (roughly the Newtonian)." > > Umm, no, the math is not the same for this two different domains! > Therefore you're "hence..." does not follow. Sorry. > > Go on. In what was isn't it the same? -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
