On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 6:16:26 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:41:42 AM UTC, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 4:48:44 AM UTC-5, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> * It claims that all mathematical objects exist in "physical" reality, >>> which is sort-of isomorphic or in some sense identical to these objects. >>> That is, no dichotomy between "physical" and mathematical objects, and all >>> the latter including plane waves exist in this reality. But you will never >>> observe a plane wave, so the MUH is falsified. AG * >>> >> >> 1. Tegmark claims everything in the universe is mathematical - that is, >> the universe consists of mathematical objects. >> 2. Tegmark also says that infinities should be eliminated from physics - >> in fact, *infinities are ruining physics*. >> [ >> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/02/20/infinity-ruining-physics/ >> ]ac >> > > Bruno wrote 1 & 2. AG > >> >> So then via Tegmark there can be no real continuous (infinitely >> divisible) objects like (mathematical) waves, putting 1 and 2 together. >> Only particular mathematical objects exist. >> > > According to Wiki, and what I've heard from its adherents, the MUH posits > that ALL mathematical object or entities exist in nature. But plane waves > do not exist in nature. (Do you know what they are?) So the MUH as claimed > by Wiki and its adherents is falsified. AG > >> >> >> In his original arXiv [ https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0646 ] and in other places he presents MUH as different "levels", so a level-one MUH would have different mathematics than a level-four MUH, etc.
To be honest, I find MUH to be both boring, adding nothing to science, and somewhat (or maybe a lot) confused. - pt -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
