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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 3 Jul 2010 02:55 Let me get back to the more important math, rather than chasing down mistakes of logic in Euclid's IP proof. So we have the geometry side of mathematics with a precision definition of finite-line versus infinite-lines. Those definitions involve the fact that a finite-line is a line segment with two endpoints. The infinite-line involves two types called a infinite-line-ray which has a endpoint and a arrow to infinity at the other end. The infinite-line has no endpoint, but only two arrows. So can we actually use the Geometry definition, since it is a precision definitions, and use them to formulate what the finite-number versus infinite-number definitions should be? There is nothing to say that numbers must be similar to lines. But there must be some sort of consistency or coherence between the definitions. In a prior post I remarked that the AP-adics and the Hensel p-adics could not be the infinite-number definition. So what I must do is analyze how the Reals behave once we inject the notion that the boundary between finite number and infinite number is 10^500 due to Physics. Now is there any hint from geometry alone that there is a boundary between finite-line and infinite-line? Not that I can discern. Perhaps the idea that all finite-lines have two endpoints, and these two endpoints somehow force a boundary between finite lines and infinite lines. But that does not look to be true. Then, the only other thing I can inspect is the idea that Geometry can never build a infinite-line from finite-lines unless there exists an infinite-number. That was the theorem I proved a few posts back. So here we have a glimpse that we cannot use geometry line definitions as a template to defining finite number versus infinite-number since the infinite- number is essential to geometry, and geometry dependent on having infinite-numbers. So what do the Reals and the Cartesian coordinate system look like once a axiom is injected into math, into the Peano axioms stating that there is a boundary between finite-number versus infinite-number and it is exactly 10^500. Well, the Reals will no longer have continuity as a concept because anything smaller than 10^-500 leaves holes. And the graphs no longer need anything beyond 10^500. So starting at zero as a endpoint and then placing an arrow to this line at 10^500 is that an infinite-line-ray? And having an arrow at (-)10^500 and another arrow at (+)10^500 is that an infinite-line? There are vexing questions such as whether a infinite line ray is formed by having 0 as end point and employing all the micronumbers between 0 and 1 such as 10^-500, so do we have micronumbers as infinite? In modern math we say call this the limit for calculus but we do not call it a micro infinity. I am of the opinion that infinity means merely beyond the ability to do physics measurements so that a micro infinity makes just as much sense as a large scale infinity. Like anything new, there are vexing new issues and questions. But look at the benefit of this new program. We no longer have unsolved problems anywhere in mathematics, nor do we ever have to search for a new proving techniques, because there is now one standard way of proving all Algebra or Number theory problems, run through 10^500 of those numbers. And, unless I am mistaken, this new program vastly improves Calculus, since in calculus, the experts of that field spent most of their time on issues of continuity. With this program, continuity was never a mathematical concept, just as fire breathing dragons are not a part of biology. Archimedes Plutonium http://www.iw.net/~a_plutonium/ whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |