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This essay explains the concept of the thorn derivative. It gives an approximation of what the derivative of a discontinuous function is. However, not exactly.
Quantum Physics has its historical beginnings with Planck's derivation of his formula for blackbody radiation, more than one hundred years ago. In his derivation, Planck used what latter became known as 'energy quanta'. In spite of the best efforts at the time and for decades later, a more 'classical approach' to derive this formula has not been found. Along with Einstein's Photon Hypothesis, the Quantization of Energy Hypothesis became the foundation for all the Physics that followed. This 'physical reality' has shaped our view of the Universe and has resulted in mathematical certainties of Quantum Mechanics that are counter-intuitive and contradict our experience. We are told that 'this is how the world is' and are asked by physicists to simply accept such 'facts of Nature'. That we need to mentally adjust to this 'view' of the Universe (the 'metaphysics of physics') and change our 'sense and reason' accordingly. We argue in this essay for a world without quanta. To the question, "Is the Universe Continuous or Discrete? ", we argue that we cannot know 'what is' and strike a philosophical balance and answer, "it is neither and both". In this essay I will present a mathematical derivation of Planck's Law that uses simple continuous processes, without using energy quanta and discrete statistics. This mathematical derivation shows that Planck's Law is an exact mathematical identity (a tautology) that describes the interaction of energy. Planck's Law viewed in this way becomes a Rosetta Stone that is used to translate known physics into a simple and consistent formulation. We are able to define such physical quantities as energy, force, momentum, temperature and entropy consistently in terms of the prime 'physis' quantity η-the same as Planck's constant h. Basic Law can thus be mathematically derived and not be physically postulated. 2. Introduction: Metaphysics historically has sought to answer the question 'what is' the Universe. Past answers to this question were expressed in Myth, Religion, Philosophy and even Politics. Today Physics provides mathematical models that seek to describe 'what is' the Universe. I believe that mathematical models of 'what is'-as with past metaphysical attempts-are a never ending search getting us deeper and deeper into the 'rabbit's hole' [Ref. 15]. Physics reduces to Mathematics not through mathematical models but through mathematical identities that describe measurement, which is the essence of Physics. Though Mathematics provides logical certainties, it can not provide the Truth of 'what is'. In the work we introduce here, Planck's constant h becomes the variable η. This is the prime 'physis' (undefined and undefinable) from which everything else follows. This quantity η we argue 'fills space' and show is conserved in all physical processes. 1
“Infinitesimal - A Dangerous Mathematical Theory” by Amir Alexander (Scientific American/Farrar – 2014) © A review essay by H. J. Spencer May 2017 This book is about one of the most dangerous ideas ever invented by human beings. It led to the theory that eventually destroyed the monopoly hold on the educated minds of Western Europe by planting one of the principal seeds of modern physics. Award-winning UCLA historian, Alexander has written a fascinating tale of how abstract ideas influence society. This book deserves to be read not just by scientists and engineers, whose lives are dominated by mathematics, but by any educated person who had to suffer through calculus class. This book is about one of the most dangerous ideas ever invented by human beings. It led to the theory that eventually destroyed the monopoly hold on the educated minds of Western Europe by planting one of the principal seeds of modern physics. Award-winning UCLA historian, Amir Alexander has written a fascinating tale of how abstract ideas influence society. This book deserves to be read not just by scientists and engineers, whose lives are dominated by mathematics, but by any educated person who had to suffer through calculus class. This book is much more than an esoteric history of an area of mathematics. It tracks the ancient rivalry between 'rationalists' and 'empiricists'. The dominant rationalists have always believed that human minds (at least those possessed by educated intellectuals) are capable of understanding the world purely by thought alone. The empiricists acknowledge that reality is far too complicated for humans to just guess its detailed structures. This is not simply an esoteric philosophical distinction but the difference in fundamental world-views that have deeply influenced the evolution of western civilization. In fact, rationalist intellectuals have usually looked to the logical perfection of mathematics as a justification for the preservation of religion and hierarchical social structures. In particular, the rationalists have raised the timeless, unchanging mathematical knowledge, represented by Euclidean geometry, as not just the only valid form of symbolic knowledge but as the only valid model of the logic of " proof ". In particular, this book focuses on the battle between the reactionaries (e.g. Jesuits and Hobbes), who needed a model of timeless perfection to preserve their class-based religious and social privileges and reality-driven modernists, like Galileo and Bacon, who were desirous of major changes. In the late Middle-Ages, the new order of Jesuits were the intellectual leaders of the Catholic Church and were formed to defeat the recent Reformation. They not only opposed Protestant theology but also the parallel forces of pluralism, populism and social reform. The Jesuits, like their Church itself and the ancient social structures they supported, were all organized on traditional (militaristic) hierarchical principles. In 1632, the Jesuits convened a major council in Rome and decided to ban the idea of " indivisibles " – the old idea that a line was composed of distinct and an infinity of tiny parts. They correctly anticipated that the threat of this idea to their rational view of the world, as an " orderly place, governed by a strict and unchanging set of rules. " Geometry was their best exemplar of their Catholic theology. The core of the disagreement was over the nature of the continuum, a concept that had surfaced in Ancient Greece. The reality of the idea of 'physical indivisibles' (atoms) was even being disputed by serious scientists as late as 1900. The original idea of continuity was stimulated by the apparent lack of observable 'gaps' in solids or liquid materials and our personal sense of the continuous flow of time (ideally, also endless). This idea became a key concept to many Ancient Greek thinkers; even, Aristotle made the plausible statement that: " No continuous thing is divisible into parts. " This was soon 'cast in concrete' with Euclid's major definition of a line as an infinite number of points. This became one of the core (obvious) assumptions of geometry – the basis of so much of western education. The concept of 'Continuity' became a key Principle of medieval scholastic thought, eagerly latched onto by Aquinas and other theologians in their battle with the atheistic and equally ancient idea of atoms.
in A. Papadopoulos, ed. Essays in Geometry Dedicated to Norbert A’Campo IRMA, Strasbourg, France , 2023
The argument of this chapter is governed by the double meaning of its title: (a) the relationships between the concepts of discreteness and continuity in modern mathematics and physics; and (b) the relationships, both continuous and discontinuous, between mathematics and physics, as, from Galileo on, a mathematical-experimental science, with mathematics coming first in this conjunction. The project of modern physics was, thus, defined by an essential continuity between mathematics and physics, as a mathematical representation of nature, principally by means of continuous functions and then calculus, until the rise of quantum theory, specifically as quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum field theory (QFT). With QM, at least in certain interpretations, such as the one adopted in this chapter, quantum theory disconnected the ultimate constitution of nature from any mathematical representation, thus, making physics discontinuous with mathematics. As this chapter will argue, however, this new epistemological situation did not disconnect quantum physics from mathematics, but, on the contrary, led to relating abstract mathematics, such as that of Hilbert spaces over C and operator algebra there, to discrete physical phenomena in terms of probabilities, thus reestablishing the connection, which was no longer representational, between mathematics and physics. This chapter will also argue that the development of the concepts of continuity and discontinuity, and the relationships between them, has acquired a great richness and complexity through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in mathematics itself, richness and complexity that found their way into physics, in particular relativity and quantum theory. One of the intriguing aspects of this development is the idea, advanced by, among others, A. Grothendieck, following B. Riemann’s comment on the subject, that the continuous may serve as an approximation of the discontinuous, rather than seeing, as is more common, the discontinuous as a mode of technical approach to the continuous. This chapter will discuss this idea, and the relationships between continuity and discontinuity in, and between, mathematics and physics in terms of two new concepts: reality without realism (RWR), applicable in both mathematics and physics, and the relationships between them, and ideality without idealism (IWI), the version of the concept of RWR, applicable specifically to mathematics.
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PROLOGUE. In this book there are , 5 revolutionary perspectives that are introduced for the first time in the history of mathematics. 1) For the first time an elementary , almost high school level, definition of the Newton-Leibniz elementary ordered fields of infinite fluxions and infinitesimals. 2) For the first time a non-Weierstrass applied new digital (finite decimal) Democritus calculus without the infinite which takes in to account the fact that mater is not infinite divisible but made from finite many atoms. As the material atoms have a finite size it is necessary to refrain in the definitions of continuity, differentiability and integral from arbitrary small quantities. This digital Democritus calculus may be developed further with differential equations with high reaching consequence for the applied mathematical sciences. Only such a digital finite (decimal) calculus can give correct mathematical models e.g. in fluid dynamics of fluids by matter which is not infinite invisible but consist from atoms. Unfortunately, the classical fluid dynamics model with the Weierstrass calculus is for an infinite divisible continuous matter. Such applied mathematics as the Democritus digital calculus, have the psychological property of subjective congruence. This means that what we think, say and write, correspond with consistence to what we act and practice. While in the classical Newton-Leibniz-Weierstrass calculus , and because of the infinite what we think ,say and write (contains the infinite) does not correspond to what we act and practice (always only finite). We suggest that a future evolution of the applied Newton-Leibniz calculus in the 21st century may very well be along these lines of ontology and definitions of Democritus finite decimal calculus. So it is a map of the future applications of the calculus in deeper material realities. The classical Weierstrass calculus as it is it has more of a metaphysical and artistic value as well. 3) A logically complete method for an applied type of simultaneously, axiomatic Cartesian analytic and axiomatic Euclidean synthetic and digital Democritus type of geometry without the infinite, which takes in to account that we study and model space basic as a property of the visible material reality which is made from the triad of electrons, protons and neutrons, for high school applied mathematics. And not the space of an infinite divisible material reality. 4) And finally in the APPENDIX for the first time an advanced, based on ordinals numbers, classification of all possible linearly ordered fields with infinitesimals. And alternative re-definition of the Surreal numbers. Especially the 1) and 2) change the conceptual, logical, ontological and applications landscape of the basic applied high school and University mathematics. 5) It is quite significant that the basic conceptual evolution of theoretical and applied mathematics during the last 3 centuries is very well traced in the current book and is a path from the Newton-Leibniz ordered fields of fluxions and infinitesimals towards the applied digital (finite decimal) Democritus type of calculus without the infinite. For those that they do not accept the infinite in the ontology of mathematics, the digital calculus is the one that saves the Newton-Leibniz calculus as more or less correct system of symbolic calculations, although eventually in a logically non-equivalent way. But for those that they do not have a problem with the infinite, the digital calculus is simply what truly we do when we try to apply in practice the theoretical Newton-Leibniz infinitesimal calculus. The NLP psychological congruence and the fair applied mathematics, without the infinite as compared to the poetic, artistic and metaphysical theoretical mathematics with the infinite. About the digital technology, artificial intelligence and the singularity. When the technology is progressive and not regressive? For those that they do not accept the infinite in the ontology of mathematics, the digital calculus is the one that saves the Newton-Leibniz calculus as more or less correct system of symbolic calculations, although eventually in a logically non-equivalent way. a) There is a great civilization principle that the technology as well as the sciences and mathematics must serve the evolution of the immortal human souls and not only the mortal human personalities. Plato is quoted to have written that only the mind with the exact and correct scientific knowledge can free the human soul from glamour, wrong beliefs and the material reality. b) And that a danger in this evolution is when it is created a soul-body or even a spiritual-body similar to the material body inside the immortal consciousness as this would hinder the migration to higher frequencies and finer densities material realities of the human spiritual existences where the fate is better controlled by the consciousness. This would be the danger not of the tyranny of a spiritual existence over other spiritual existences but of matter over consciousness. c) In particular there are many people who know or believe that there is not only our visible molecular material reality made from electrons, protons and neutrons , but many higher density and frequency material realities like the fieldmatter (the matter of the electromagnetic field, gravitational field etc.) again made from triads of smaller particles. If this is true that why the mathematical calculus in concepts like continuity smoothness, integrals that give total energy etc, would involve arbitrary small quantities, covering all of them and more? A Democritus type of digital calculus would me more wise and correct. d) On the other side , there are those that claim that the theoretical mathematics with the ontology of the infinite, serve best the evolution of the immortal souls as it is a reminder that the universe is not only matter (the finite) but also consciousness (the infinite). Thus as it is it has a metaphysical and artistic value as well. And that applied mathematics with an ontology strictly finite without the infinite, would be too much materialistic. e) And then there are those who claim that modeling matter with the ontology of infinite is animistic and create a body and model of material reality inside the collective soul consciousness, which is a danger to the evolution of the souls. On the contrary modeling material reality only with the ontology of the finite, will make such models as a kind of material technology too, eventually to be left behind like any technology and not hinder the evolution of the immortal human souls. f) And then there are those who claim that both theoretical mathematics with the ontology of the infinite as well as applied mathematics with ontology only finite, may or may not serve the evolution of the human immortal soul depending on the historical circumstances and phase of evolution both of the civilization and the individual immortal soul. g) I will let the readers decide for themselves and according to their personal experience which of the two or both theoretical mathematics with the infinite or applied mathematics without the infinite, serve best the evolution of their immortal soul. )
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We hope this work allows one to calculate large prime numbers directly, not by trial-and-error, but following a physical law. We report—contrary to conventional assumptions—that differentiation of discontinuous functions (DDF) exists in the set Q, which becomes central to algorithms for quantum computation. DDF have been thought to exist not in the classical sense, but using distributions. However, DDF using distributions still is defined in terms of mathematical real-numbers (MRN), and do not address the Problem of Closure, here investigated. These facts lead to contradictions using MRN, solved by this work, providing a new unbounded class of physical solutions using physical numbers in quantum mechanics (QM), that were always there (just hidden), allowing DDF without distributions, or MRN. It is worthwhile to see this only in mathematics, to avoid the prejudices found in physics, as this reforms both general relativity and QM. This confirms the opinions of Nicolas Gisin that MRN a...
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In this paper, we propose to introduce the differential of a function through a non classical way, lying on hyperreals and infinite microscopes. This approach is based on the developments of nonstandard analysis, wants to be more intuitive than the classical one and tries to emphasize the functional and geometric aspects of the differential. In the second part of the work, we analyse the results of an experiment made with undergraduate students who had been taught calculus by a non standard way for nearly two years.
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In this paper I go further from the digital continuous axiomatic Euclidean geometry ([8]) and introduce the basic definitions and derive the basic familiar properties of the differential and integral calculus without the use of the infinite, within finite sets only. No axioms are required in this only successfully chosen definitions. I call it the digital differential and integral calculus. Such mathematics is probably the old unfulfilled hitherto dream of the mathematicians since many centuries. Strictly speaking it is not equivalent to the classical differential and integral calculus which makes use of the infinite (countable and uncountable) and limits. Nevertheless for all practical reasons in the physical and social sciences it gives all the well known applications with a finite ontology which is directly realizable both in the physical ontology of atomic matter or digital ontology of operating systems of computers. Such a digital calculus has aspects simpler than the classical "analogue" calculus which often has a complexity irrelevant to the physical reality. It can become also more complicated than the classical calculus when more than 2 resolutions are utilized, but this complexity is directly relevant to the physical reality. The digital differential and integral calculus is of great value for the applied physical and social sciences as its ontology is directly corresponding to the ontology of computers. It is also a new method of teaching mathematics where there is integrity with what we say, write, see, and think. In this short outline of the basic digital differential and integral calculus, we include on purpose almost only the basic propositions that are almost identical with the corresponding of the classical calculus for reasons of familiarity with their proofs.
The article under review, “Incomplete understanding of concepts: the case of the derivative”, hereafter IUC, investigates foundational phenomena spanning the entirety of mathematics: the past and the present. These perennial phenomena involve the increasing clarity of objective mathematical concepts and the evolving subjective understanding of these concepts by individual mathematicians. But only recently they have started to attract attention. They become more vivid as the gap widens between the relative vagueness of ancient mathematics and the relative precision of modern mathematics. Large domains of modern geometry and number theory contain results achieved long ago, sometimes many centuries ago, or at least results having analogs which were achieved earlier. Yet modern mathematics has concepts far more precise than those of ancient mathematics and a modern mathematician has an understanding of mathematical concepts that is far more rigorous than that an ancient mathematician had. Comparing the clarity and precision of Alfred Tarski’s geometry [Reference 1] with the vagueness and imprecision of Euclid’s [Reference 2] raises the question of whether the ancient results are literally what are recognized as true today (or only relatively crude forerunners of modern theorems). If the ancient results survived intact, the question concerns how Euclid’s predecessors—whose results Euclid catalogued—achieved results still recognized as true. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are many problematic passages about justifying beliefs. From a historiographic perspective, some of the most problematic involve IUC’s repeated assertion that an earlier thinker’s beliefs that were unjustified at the time can be justified later by new discoveries. Being right and being justified are often conflated: being justified is being right but for the right reasons, so to speak. The first such assertion is in the abstract: “Later, Weierstrass justified their [sc. Newton’s and Leibniz’] thoughts by giving a correct explication of the derivative concept”. IUC never explains its usage of ‘justify’, ‘justified’, ‘justifiable’, and their cognates. There are many errors: typographical, grammatical, and otherwise. It gets off to a bad start. On the first page, p. 1163, after using the expression ‘the derivative concept’ twice, IUC contradicts itself by asserting that there are many derivative concepts. For the next few pages thereafter IUC continues to use ‘the derivative concept’ multiple times contradicting its own self-contradictions. Nevertheless, on p. 1170, in criticizing another philosopher, IUC observes that ‘the derivative concept’ requires that there be only one such. The prose is rough, verbose, and hard to read. Nevertheless, it raises some promising questions. IUC could be useful, perhaps important, despite its faults. Acknowledgements: John Baldwin, Raymond Boute, John Burgess, John Dawson, Allen Hazen, David Hitchcock, Joaquin Miller, Frango Nabrasa, Warren Goldfarb, James Smith, Wolfgang Thomas, Daniel Velleman, Albert Visser, and others.
We offer you a collection of mathematical notes by the author, which are designed to serve as a tool for describing the nature of things. Thus, the subject of this book is the mathematical formalism of the theory of everything, and as the fundamental idea of the book, the principle of least action is used, raised to a geometric-dynamic level. The book is intended primarily for those readers who are interested in the metaphysical foundation of physics, i.e., questions about the origin of the laws of physics, physical fields and particles, and finally, about the origin of physical space and the dependence of the mathematical description of physical space on the localization of the observer. The content of the main part of the book consists of an introduction and five notes revealing the philosophical intent of the author, and in the appendix there are two more notes of an applied nature. It should also be noted that this small brochure is addressed not only to readers who are able to get into the philosophical and mathematical idea of the author, but also to skeptical readers who may be interested only in the mathematical aspects of this idea.
We have suggested that the greater infinite universe interacts with our local confined universe (referred to as our “local universe” or as the “Equilibrium Universe”) only through symmetric equilibriums, occurring at permissible energy levels, and naturally, presenting particular emphases at certain principle frequencies (such as the Planck-Stoney cluster, the Fermion complex, and the Weyl/Graviton particle). One might ask why such restraints? The simple short answer is that we are all together inside an event horizon 1, a Black Hole. Einstein’s field equations 1,2 clearly implicate the Planck force as the source of all interactions and the Planck Interaction is then explanatory as to where all particles derive such energy-force from 3... sourcing the mass and energy found throughout the universe, and eventually all things in it.
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