hehehe... wouldn't it be kinda interesting if the plural for "dimension" was "dimentia"? might it not explain a bit about schizophrenia? singular = "schizophrenion"? ... kinda like phenomen-a/on
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Generally, I haven't thought prime numbers were a big deal in fundamental physics.
Numbers, like distance between objects, have units, so can't really be fixed primes. The distance to the Sun--is that a prime? Depends how you measure.
There are a few quantities in physics that are unitless, like the fine structure constant which is near 1/137 but not exactly 1/137. Nobody knows how to explain these values. We find them from observation only.
The only place I know of in nature where prime numbers are favored is in the times for cicadas to recur
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what are primes doing in all of this?jjaelNovember 9 2005, 18:07:56 UTC
you wrote: "But you are suggesting, I think, that signaling within the brain uses some of the same encryption techniques based on the factoring of large numbers into primes... Or do I misunderstand you
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Re: what are primes doing in all of this?bramNovember 14 2005, 01:35:37 UTC
Actually, I am ignoranter than I thought. The Riemann Zeta function can be used in calculations of the Casimir effect, and apparently in string theory too. I'm still not convinced that it has fundamental importance.
--My Homepagethe recent Scientific American has as its cover article pretty neat piece on how the holographic principle is a pretty nifty model for unifying certain aspects of string theory and QCD and also how it may suggest the relationships of higher/fractional dimensional physics
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Numbers, like distance between objects, have units, so can't really be fixed primes. The distance to the Sun--is that a prime? Depends how you measure.
There are a few quantities in physics that are unitless, like the fine structure constant which is near 1/137 but not exactly 1/137. Nobody knows how to explain these values. We find them from observation only.
The only place I know of in nature where prime numbers are favored is in the times for cicadas to recur ( ... )
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