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I arbitrarily defined an arbitrary mathematical structure (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
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clarice
(5,504 posts)1. good one nt
demwing
(16,916 posts)2. I knew it!
I mean...I didn't know it... (Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada?)
but I knew it!
patrice
(47,992 posts)3. This is why I love rainbows! Lead the way! The rest of us will try to keep up. Promise! nt
gcomeau
(5,764 posts)4. Rec for the Last Starfighter reference! -eom
hunter
(38,311 posts)5. I hate it when that happens.
And then they always bring you back. There you are wandering the streets of Berkeley asking people, "Please, please tell me, what's the date??? No, no the YEAR man, I mean the YEAR!!!"
Taking the bus home is anti-climatic. People don't sit next to you. You look a little crazy, you smell weird, a mix of ozone and sweat, and nobody knows you just saved humanity.
napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)6. I saw a good youtube talk by Roger Penrose, where he eluded to that.
It was a passing comment, about how the complex numbers were created out of thin air in the past, but now we know (especially via Quantum Mechanics) that they are critical to the way the universe works. The way he said it struck me, like he considered it almost downright suspicious that this would be the case.
Dr. Strange
(25,920 posts)7. But it wasn't well-defined.