That would still be three in binary...


Tom C.






From: Mishka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Religoon, Christ vs. the Other Guy
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:07:39 -0500

Bob,

The concept of "number" is quite abstract, well defined and
unrelated to modern or any other kind of physics.
Basically, 1+1 is 2 because "1" and "2" are defined that way.

When I said "1+1=10", I meant binary representation.
The joke of "large values of 1" is a joke on physicists

best,

mishka

On 2/17/06, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Kevin's point is that there is no such thing as objective reality.
> The universe is probabilities.  It is highly probable that 1 + 1 +
> 2 , and for that reason it nearly always does.  But there is a very
> small probability that 1 + 1 = 3 , and sometimes it does.  Equally,
> the probability that 1 + 1 = 297 is not 0, but just very small.
> There are no absolutes in the universe.
>
> That is probably the most important point to grasp in trying to
> understand modern physics.
>
> Bob
>
>



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