Dear Professor,

Your essay is very educative to say the least. However, as a follow-up to your logic,the geometric increase in mathematical ( dimensional) structure and the decreasing axiomatic scaffolding can only reach zero axiom ,and therefore lack structure,aims and intentions in an infinite universe. Am i right?

    Dear Peter,

    Thank you for the kind words.

    I do not see the reason why a finite set demands structure. Maybe the universe is finite.

    All the best,

    Noson

    Dear Conrad,

    Thank you for the kind words.

    I do not think we are in a disagreement. I like what you wrote.

    All the best,

    Noson

    Dear Edwin,

    Thank you for the kind words. It would indeed be nice to formulate a program to come up with laws of physics. I look forward to reading your essay.

    All the best,

    Noson

    Noson -

    Thanks for an interesting essay. It's a highly challenging notion to conceptualize mathematics without axioms and a physics of perfect, unbroken symmetry. The unity of the indistinguishable void - timeless, motionless, and yet recursively related to the infinity of all potential and all time and place. Great stuff! I put some thought into these question in my last FQXi essay The Hole at The Center of Creation.

    I am left wth a question - how does it all get started? I know first causes are a problematic issue - the responses ranging between nothing and God, but I do think it is relevant to the contest. If the beginning is pure symmetry and no distinctions - what gets the ball rolling? My sense is there is of necessity some form of intentionality and direction (whether from divine agency or otherwise).

    Sincere Regards - George Gantz (The How and The Why of Emergence and Intention).

    I tried to do that in my last FQXi essay

    Dear Noson S. Yanofsky,

    Excellent informative essays about the temporal and spatial symmetry, about complex numbers, quaternions, etc., written in good academic style. It would be nice if you would consider tensors, which Einstein coded their theories from prying eyes.

    I inform all the participants that use the online translator, therefore, my essay is written badly. I participate in the contest to familiarize English-speaking scientists with New Cartesian Physic, the basis of which the principle of identity of space and matter. Combining space and matter into a single essence, the New Cartesian Physic is able to integrate modern physics into a single theory.

    Don't let the New Cartesian Physic disappear! Do not ask for himself, but for Descartes.

    New Cartesian Physic has great potential in understanding the world. To show potential in this essay I risked give "The way of The materialist explanation of the paranormal and the supernatural" - Is the name of my essay.

    Visit my essay and you will find something in it about New Cartesian Physic. After you give a post in my topic, I shall do the same in your theme.

    Sincerely,

    Dizhechko Boris

    Noson,

    You didn't respond to my post above and haven't read my essay. Is there a reason or just pressure of time. I'd hoped we may discuss, including some consistencies, also with my last years (top scored) offering perhaps helping shed some light on; "This idea that we only see structure because we are focusing on a subset of phenomena is novel and hard to wrap one's head around"

    Very best

    Peter

      Dear Peter,

      I am sorry. There is no disrespect. Just time is a precious commodity around here. I will try to look at it and comment. Feel free to send me a personal email.

      Again, I sincerely apologize.

      All the best,

      Noson

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