Re: Is the universe a set? Probably not.

2000-10-24 Thread Hal Ruhl
My particular approach is to base the universe on the idea that it is a physical isomorphism of but one of a set of incomplete, finite, consistent FAS [ifc-FAS]. Members of this set occasionally [no time connotations] freeze out spontaneously from a growing, seething, foamy fractal of

Re: Is the universe a set? Probably not.

2000-10-16 Thread Russell Standish
Christoph Schiller wrote: What I meant with the word is in the title was: Is the most precise description of the uniwerse a set? I am not talking about ontology or epistemology, just about experiments and comparison with theory. Of course, both quantum theory and relativity