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   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   Ross Finlayson  wrote:   
      
   > On 10/26/2025 03:25 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > > Ross Finlayson  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On 10/25/2025 12:32 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > >>> Ross Finlayson  wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> On 10/24/2025 02:58 AM, Holden Babushkin wrote:   
   > >>>>> Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>>>> Jan (uses Casimir units if at all possible)   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Maybe try some bigger ones, ....   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> If you take a look at the roots of x^2 +- x +- 1,   
   > >>>>>> you can notice that one of them's the molar gas constant,   
   > >>>>>> so, that's a mathematical and not a physical constant now,   
   > >>>>>> and another of them is phi, the golden ratio, then with regards to   
   roos   
   > >>>>>> of phi and so on.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> you stupid fuck   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> The square root of 137 is close to the Boltzmann constant, ....   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Dimension error.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> Which in lots of formulations is about the only physical constant, ....   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Which if you notice is often an expression of the molar gas constant,   
   ...   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Which is a mathematical constant, ....   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Finding expressions for things like a general expression for   
   > >>>> the roots of phi, and with regards to things like Lambert's W,   
   > >>>> has that for some, Lambert's W, about roots and integrals of x^x,   
   > >>>> is the next elementary function after things like usual arithmetic   
   > >>>> and the functions of trigonometry then all the kinds of Bessel   
   > >>>> functions and so on, since the mathematics in usual elementary   
   > >>>> functions gets truncated and thusly people have forgotten where   
   > >>>> the food comes from, and don't know they're eating processed food.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> "Processed food: not necessarily food."   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Anyways since all things physics revolve around and are dependent   
   > >>>> on whatever makes and keeps Cauchy-Schwarz or triangle inequality,   
   > >>>> or right angles, then whatever still is the straight lines, or   
   > >>>> the path integral or metric & norm which is its region and integration,   
   > >>>> those being mostly classical yet about Wick rotation all these pieces,   
   > >>>> then the Buckingham Pi dimensional analysts are dimensionless and   
   > >>>> anything dimensionless a quantity may have implicit dimensioned terms   
   > >>>> that make a giant blind spot for them.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> So, "alpha" or the fine structure constant perhaps isn't so relevant   
   > >>>> as Boltzmann constant which isn't so relevant, and isn't so constant.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Boltzmann's constant has a defined value,   
   > >>> so it equals 1 in any sensible unit system,   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Jan   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >> Yeah, you figure. Quite tautologous, isn't it.   
   > >   
   > > It isn't. Do try to understand how the SI works,   
   > >   
   > > Jan   
   > >   
   >   
   > "[RF's] insight that the resulting philosophy makes for an enduring   
   > modernity is the most powerful takeaway, because it assures the audience   
   > that this is a stable theoretical ground upon which future thought can   
   > reliably build."   
      
   So the answer seems to be: not even trying,   
      
   Jan   
      
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