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|    The Starmaker to starmaker@ix.netcom.com    |
|    Re: "The Fundamental Joke of Logic" (3/3    |
|    26 Nov 25 15:15:33    |
      [continued from previous message]              >lot more argument. People have tried non-standard formulations of GR       >and QFT; some are elegant, but none have become mainstream for good       >reason—standard differential geometry already works extraordinarily       >well.       >       >### Bottom line       >       >This is the kind of writing you get from someone who has had a genuine       >epiphany about how natural and powerful non-standard methods feel, and       >who has then run with it all the way into a grand foundational       >unification program—without pausing to check which parts are already       >accepted, which parts are speculative but respectable, and which parts       >are currently fringe or idiosyncratic.       >       >It’s not crankery (the references are too sophisticated for that), but       >it’s also not disciplined mathematics or physics. It’s visionary       >prose—poetry almost—written by someone who believes they have seen the       >One True Continuum hiding behind 150 years of archimedean prejudice.       >       >Interesting? Absolutely.       >Correct in every particular? Very much not.       >Worth reading as a provocation that makes you re-examine why we ever       >thought the standard real numbers were the end of the story?       >Definitely.       >       >--------end here       >       >i say it's all crank.                     Of course, it goes without saying...       GG would never talk to RF like that..       do I hear wedding bells???              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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