Re: The Fourth Hypostase, String Theory, Diophantus and the Monster

2006-09-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 30-sept.-06, à 03:18, Colin Geoffrey Hales a écrit : The difference between fiction and reality is 18 Bruno Marchal I love it! For those who want the basic references: Douglas Adam, 1982, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. + (err actually *minus*) The complete work of Ramanujan

Re: The Fourth Hypostase, String Theory, Diophantus and the Monster

2006-09-29 Thread Colin Geoffrey Hales
Le 27-sept.-06, ࠲0:41, Tom Caylor a 飲it : I've thought of bringing up the Monster group here before, but I didn't think anyone here would be that weird, since I even get weird reactions to my ideas about the Riemann zeta function. I've noticed the connection with the number 26 also. (By

Re: The Fourth Hypostase, String Theory, Diophantus and the Monster

2006-09-27 Thread Tom Caylor
I've thought of bringing up the Monster group here before, but I didn't think anyone here would be that weird, since I even get weird reactions to my ideas about the Riemann zeta function. I've noticed the connection with the number 26 also. (By the way, for some unknown reason in my childhood

Re: The Fourth Hypostase, String Theory, Diophantus and the Monster

2006-09-27 Thread Tom Caylor
Tom Caylor wrote: I've thought of bringing up the Monster group here before, but I didn't think anyone here would be that weird, since I even get weird reactions to my ideas about the Riemann zeta function. I've noticed the connection with the number 26 also. (By the way, for some unknown

Re: The Fourth Hypostase, String Theory, Diophantus and the Monster

2006-09-24 Thread 1Z
Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi all, About the question by Stathis: does any piece of matter implement all computations, after reflection I would say that both comp and the quantum should answer in the positive. First in reasonable quantum field theories, the vacuum is already turing universal

Re: The Fourth Hypostase, String Theory, Diophantus and the Monster

2006-09-22 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi, I have found an universal diophantine polynomial on the net (the one by J.P. Jones). To be sure it is a *system* of equations, but by adding the squares of all the polynomials (by writing them in the form P = 0) in the system, you will get an equivalent unique polynomial which is still