Quote: "people on this forum take themselves far too seriously, and I would be better of discussing science elsewhere."
That's a pretty weak attitude. If a few people don't share your spirit then so what?
Quote: "you shouldn't over-think physics"
Yes you should, it's vital that we over-think physics.
Quote: "It is what it is"
But it isn't, that's the purpose of science.
Quote: "the more you try to put numbers to it, the the further you get from the beautiful singular harmonic visual truth about everything that you can only experience when you distance yourself from the world and realize that "reality" has a mind of its own."
I don't see how anything not based on numbers could possibly be singular. If the method for obtaining a solution is arbitrary then you can obtain an arbitrary number of solutions. One model being more beautiful or harmonious than another proves nothing.
Quote: "the basic principals of motion which we'll never understand"
What prevents us from understanding?
Quote: "What proof have I that you exist?"
What proof have you that YOU exist?
I must exist if I am able to answer the question.
Existence is a pretty empty question because you need to define the thing you are talking about, so really the question should be about the nature of existence.
I can say that I exist and this must be true because I can answer, but what is the nature of "I", the self?
This reminds me of something I was thinking, about numbers. Three is the first real number because it's really the first quantifiable number. Thought experiment:
Think about a universe of nothing, where zero is the only number, well it's not even a number yet because not even the concept of numbers exists, not even the concept of existence exists!
Now into this world comes the number one, like a point of light hovering in nothingness. We can't say where it is or how big it is because there are no reference points. This is the first concept: existence, with one we can say whether something exists or not but no more.
Now we bring in the number two: this is the concept of plurality. We now know that more than one can exist, but it's not really a number, it's just another state of existence than one. If we imagine a second point of light in the void, we can't say how far apart the two points are, or what angle they are at because we have no scale or reference.
Finally with the third point of light we have our number! We can now judge the lengths between points because we have two other lengths to compare with. Numbers are no longer just greater than one, they have a definite value.
If we continue to add points to the system nothing new is added because we already have the reference point we needed.
Shh... you're pretty.
