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Re: [ontolog-forum] Interesting Category - Chindogu

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From: "Sharma, Ravi" <Ravi.Sharma@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:44:03 -0700
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Dark matter and Dark energy were not main concern at Einstein's time as
these are new discoveries based and Quantum phenomena recognize
statistical nature of universe both at 1. Quantum levels by Fermi Dirac
(1/2 spin particles)and Bose Einstein (Integral spin) particles and some
newly proposed Axions by 2004 Nobel Laureate for quarks and gluons Frank
Wilczek. Statistics and physics are together in understanding the
universe a one of multiple possibilities in latest thinking, and at 2.
Universe wide levels (stochastic proceses.
As a physicist first, I do not know what it means for ontologists! But
in metaphysics and logic (sometimes) it is convention to accept
ambiguities and apply rules to resolve multiple meanings of concepts and
narrow down the resulting divergent conclusions (ref: Godel).
Thanks.
Ravi    (01)

(Dr. Ravi Sharma) Senior Enterprise Architect    (02)

Vangent, Inc. Technical Excellence Center (TEC)    (03)

8618 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 310, Vienna VA 22182
(o) 703-827-0638, (c) 3132041740 www.vangent.com    (04)



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On Tuesday 15 January 2008 08:00, Pat Hayes wrote:
> At 3:57 PM -0800 1/14/08, Duane Nickull wrote:
> >...
> >
> >As a long time Kawakami fan, I have to both admire his work but find
> > this list raises bigger issues.  Our universe, for example, is a
> > paradox of logic.  According to most logic, nothing can go on
> > eternally
>
> Wha? Where did you get that notion from? Most
> logics say nothing at all about eternity or
> otherwise, but those that do address temporal
> continuity allow for eternal entities.    (06)

Is it not impossible in FOL to finitely axiomatize finiteness? (Does 
that count as a paradox??)    (07)


> >yet both time and space apparently must.
>
> Again, why must they? There are solutions to
> Einstein's general relativity equations in which
> the universe is finite in all dimensions
> (including time.)
>
> >   Quantum physics and human perception seem to be
> >irreconcilable (my opinion)
>
> In what sense irreconcileable? QT can be used to
> help explain why the world at our scale looks the
> way it does, eg why foliage looks green rather
> than, say, orange.    (08)

No physical phenomenon is irreconcilable with the nature of physical 
reality! Our perceptual systems are quantum mechanical systems built of 
matter and operating by ongoing transfers of energy largely for the 
purpose of processing information derived from patterns of energy 
transfer in the individual's surroundings.    (09)

Everything is quantum mechanical and relativistic (*). Everything obeys 
all the applicable "laws" of physics. The fact that we have an 
imprecise and incomplete knowledge of those laws doesn't change that.    (010)

(*) Presumably we must hold open the possibility that the phenomena 
known colloquially as "dark matter" and "dark energy" (owing to our 
near-total ignorance of what underpins the observations to which those 
terms are attached) might involve new physics that is outside what we 
now think of as QM. The simplicity and continuity of GR makes it seem 
less likely that it needs elaboration, but presumably that's a personal 
bias of mine (quite probably shared by Einstein during his life, as 
well).    (011)

Here's a fun one: Recent research (based on modeling and simulation, I 
believe) suggests that there may have been enormous aggregations of 
dark matter in the very early galaxy. Aggregations thousands of times 
larger than our own solar system!    (012)

The mathematics of the current formulation of QM have not been 
reconciled with the mathematics of the current formulation of GR. There 
is no reason to believe the physical world is irreconcilable with 
itself, so we rightly expect to someday find out what is off or missing 
in our formulations of those theories and to remove the apparent (but 
unreal) incompatibilities they suggest.    (013)


> >  perhaps due to the fact our own brains are too
> >limited to comprehend the larger realm in which we exist.    (014)

Unlikely. Our brains did not evolve over all those millions of years to 
comprehend things far beyond the range of our bodies' perceptual 
mechanisms, yet we have far exceeded those limits in just a few 
thousand years. There is little to no intuition that helps a physicist 
understand QM, yet it is successfully applied in an ever-expanding 
range of technologies and the field itself continues to yield new (to 
us) phenomena and knowledge.    (015)


> >The question that arises out of this is "how can we define
> > ontologies based on logic in a universe that apparently exists in
> > contradiction of that logic"?
>
> That might be an interesting question if it made sense.    (016)

It might be a nice inspiration for a poem, at least. Poets never have to    (017)

make any kind of sense.    (018)


> Pat
>
> >Duane    (019)


Randall Schulz    (020)

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