dlorde
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They are misleading jokes, so be more creative and next time please try to invent non-misleading jokes.
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They are misleading jokes, so be more creative and next time please try to invent non-misleading jokes.
Doron, a joke is a joke - the whole point is that they are misleading in some way - it's the cognitive dissonance that's makes them funny - just as your insistence on Direct Perception to 'get' OM, when nobody knows how to Directly Perceive OM as anything more than a dull maths exercise, is funny!
You are not in that position.
Did you hear the one about two Israelis and a line? No? Probably just as well. It was pointless, anyway.

Did you hear the one about two Israelis and a line? No? Probably just as well. It was pointless, anyway.
Greetings,
Chris
Christian Klippel, be careful.
Are you going to wake up a cat with a dog??
A 15 word post that was edited 5 minutes after posting. Classic doronshadmi. I wonder why he didn't wait to use the other 115 minutes that were available to him.
A 15 word post that was edited 5 minutes after posting. Classic doronshadmi. I wonder why he didn't wait to use the other 115 minutes that were available to him.
Well doron,
In math, your answer is lim(1), i.e. it approaches one, but never reaches it.
In physics, it is 1 - Plancks length (if you want to get into more detail, you will get into Heisenberg, Feynman etc. and have to read 'The Elegant Universe')
And guess what, they are not the same answers!
Goood morning Doron!
Leaving aside your bla-bla remarks we will continue with self-evident facts.
First, again, the answer to what the length is of a line that has {1,1/2,1/3,1/4,1/5,1/6,...} or any variation thereof:
Which you may have missed. Or, more probably, deliberatly ignored.
By the way, both physics and mathematics are 'infinite'. There is nothing hard in setting up infinite loops etc.
But, especially for you, I will be keeping score on how Math, Physics & OM are doing on specific problems in this forum.
I would like to ask other forum members to keep track of the scoreboard as well and show it at the bottom of your posts.
Since OM can not answer the question 'what is the length of a line consisting of the above set' (which can be proven because any OM set *must* be finite because there actually being a smallest member) it has 0 points.
Scoreboard for real questions:
Math: 1
Physics: 1
OM: 0
On to the next conundrum for OM.
Consider the following:
OM says, as per words of Doron, that no line can be composed of 0-dim elements. It *has* to be made up from 1-dim elements.
This is at the very core of what he has directly perceived.
So, any 2 1-dim elements that are not on the same line will be at an angle to each other.
In OM, I postulate, therefore there can not be the concept of a circle, it can have only polygons.
Making it:
Scoreboard for real questions:
Math: 2
Physics: 2
OM: 0
Time for coffee!
A curve is also a 1-dim element, and in the case of a circle, its curvature is w.r.t a single 0-dim.
Also in this case the existence of a 1-dim element is not defined by or made of 0-elements, since curvature is not essential for the existence of a 1-dim element.
zooterkin said:ETA: How long is the line on which the numbers in the following series appear: {1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, ... } ?
doronshadmi said:How do you measure length, in this case?
What is unit, in this case?zooterkin said:In units.
So that means OM can not use combinatorial techniques to describe shapes?
realpaladin said:There is also a flaw in that reasoning: curvature is defined by a third point on the line segment.
aphatia said:1 orange + another orange + another orange = three oranges.
aphatia said:The Organic Number 3 starts with William, Mary, and Oliver Cromwell.
The count is potential. You like to say it's in "superposition." until a decision based on class is made.
doronshadmi said:zooterkin said:ETA: How long is the line on which the numbers in the following series appear: {1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, ... } ?doronshadmi said:How do you measure length, in this case?What is unit, in this case?zooterkin said:In units.
A curve is also a 1-dim element, and in the case of a circle, its curvature is w.r.t a single 0-dim element.