🧵 String and gauge theorists GTFO
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:38:27 UTC No. 16434770
The debasement of meaning is just one of the trouble spots in contemporary
mathematics. Taken all together, these trouble spots indicate that something is
lacking, that there is a philosophical deficit of major proportions. What it is
that is lacking is perhaps not clear, but the lack, in all of its aspects con-
stitutes a syndrome I shall tentatively describe as "schizophrenia".
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One could probably make a long list of schizophrenic attributes of con-
temporary mathematics, but I think the following short list covers most of the
ground: rejection of common sense in favor of formalism; debasement of meaning
by wilful refusal to accomodate certain aspects of reality; inappropriateness
of means to ends; the esoteric quality of the communication; and fragmentation.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:14:40 UTC No. 16434849
>>16434770
Based. Fuck stringfags
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:17:10 UTC No. 16434854
>debasement of meaning
In other words OP doesn't get it therefore it's bad
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:26:11 UTC No. 16434868
>>16434854
By devaluation of content I mean the following. To some pure mathematicians
the only reason for attaching any interpretation whatever to theorem and proof is
that the process of producing theorems and proofs is thereby facilitated. For ther
content is a means rather than the end. Others feel that it is important to have
some content, but don't especially care to find out what it is. Still others, for
whom Godel (see for example [16]) seems to be a leading spokesman, do their best
to develop content within the accepted framework of platonic idealism. One
suspects that the majority of pure mathematicians, who belong .to the union of the
first two groups, ignore as much content as they possibly can.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:36:04 UTC No. 16434887
>>16434868
This has nothing to do with either string or gauge theories
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:28:31 UTC No. 16435004
>>16434854
I think i get What he means. theoretical physics Is abstract in nature. You cannot observe or experiment the models physically or materially.
However this is known because it's documented in the Literature.
So I think this debate is political in nature.
Any physicists worth his salt knows the difference in abstraction and reality
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:13:24 UTC No. 16435108
>>16434887
schizo math in schizo """theories"""