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Radiation from antennae - a new philosophy
Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m16b3a$d52$1@dont-
email.me: I've always loved math, but at the time I had gotten hooked on electronics. Not that I regret that decision - I don't. But the more I see about what physicists are discovering, the more I want to be involved. I got into electronics too, but it had more to do with the little neon bulbs than the maths. The things totally fascinated me as a kid. IO was never good at maths, I only got to grips with logarithms because I needed them to make a phase mod synth actually happen, with my own code. Maybe my use of word 'metaphysical' is badly chosen, what I really mean is that no usefully predictive theory (so far as I know) models information in a coherently or structured link as mass is to energy. If it did the worth of maths changes entirely from an explanatory device, to a means of actually making stuff. The patterns of numbers are as 'out there' as any physical discovery, so perhaps this is so. The bit that does get tangled with metaphysics is that if this is so, then our thought (as well as our observations, a fact already established in quantum theory) shapes our world in ways more fundamentally direct than we usually imagine. It opens up questions as to whether the ever present risk of war is due to the human obsession with it rather than anything else, and perhaps the reason that physists, despite having created the atomic bomb, tend not to 'do war' precisely because they're usually too busy thinking deeply about other things. |
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