Re:Planets in the Fourth Dimension
by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @02:27PM
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TBH, when you stumble upon a really useful parameter space, it does seem like magic.
Also, these days I'm reading Max Tegmark's "Our Mathematical Universe" and, being immersed in that argumentation, the whole "real vs unreal" dichotomy seems a bit transparent. Anyway, having formerly played a bit with computational physics, I'm primarily after what's useful.
Re:Planets in the Fourth Dimension
by sonoffett on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @03:19PM
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General semantics helped me be aware of how easy it is to confuse the map for the territory, as well as adopt models based on their usefulness. As a great philosopher once said, reality is what you can get away with.
Also, these days I'm reading Max Tegmark's "Our Mathematical Universe" and, being immersed in that argumentation, the whole "real vs unreal" dichotomy seems a bit transparent. Anyway, having formerly played a bit with computational physics, I'm primarily after what's useful.