Commentary

July 17, 2007

Mirror Symmetry

Filed under: Physics

When you are on top of a mirror, ups and downs are reversed.

Are Complex Number Less Real Than Integers?

Filed under: Mathematics

Platonists generally believe so; as mathematician Leopold Kronecker once said:

God created the integers; the rest is the work of man.

Platonists hold that various mathematical constructs have different degrees of physical existence, some more real than others.  Well known platonists include Kurt Godel and Sir Roger Penrose.

How come platonism isn’t as popular it’s used to be?

Which World Would You Rather Live In?

Filed under: Morality

A world where people with different moral and ethics killing each other in order to impose their own version of morality on others, each believing that their own moral principles are the best. 

or …

A world where people believe the equality of all morality, a world with no right and wrong, where a terrorist is no less morally justified in killing innocent people than an innocent person who is morally justified in defending himself against a terrorist.

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