A new mathematical symbol

[Mumbles274]

We have +-×÷=, as well as many other mathematical symbols and the like. But really +-×÷= are the bones of all maths. What if there was something else that we hadn't discovered yet? Is this a possibility? I favour the idea of a quantum symbol. I'll call it Q, it means yes and no at the same time. Equals but does not equal, positive and negative. I'm pretty sure it will be in the new equation that solves where all the dark matter and energy is. Anyone wanna run the numbers?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Anyone wanna run the numbers?

Q.

 

[Mumbles274]

Q.

Yeah, but what do they Q

 

[two sheds]

I think i is the one you're looking for

 

[8ball]

I think i is the one you're looking for

As Lionel Richie almost said.

Tbf, it's kind of the nearest thing to what Mumbles wants (that I can think of).

 

[Winot]

We have +-×÷=, as well as many other mathematical symbols and the like. But really +-×÷= are the bones of all maths. What if there was something else that we hadn't discovered yet? Is this a possibility? I favour the idea of a quantum symbol. I'll call it Q, it means yes and no at the same time. Equals but does not equal, positive and negative. I'm pretty sure it will be in the new equation that solves where all the dark matter and energy is. Anyone wanna run the numbers?

Are you stoned?

 

[Mumbles274]

Are you stoned?

Who me? With my reputation?

 

[two sheds]

Well dark matter is clearly matter in the imaginary direction so it all makes sense to me. Or the aether as we used to call it in my day

 

[WouldBe]

Well dark matter is clearly matter in the imaginary direction so it all makes sense to me. Or the aether as we used to call it in my day

Shouldn't it be j then? IIRC j is used for imaginary numbers.

 

[two sheds]

Yep i mathematical j engineering

 

[8ball]

Shouldn't it be j then? IIRC j is used for imaginary numbers.

i (I)

J (j) is used as a substitute for I (i), because for a great many years I (i) has been used to denote electrical current

 

[two sheds]

I don't think I've mentioned my proof of the aether for several years now

 

[8ball]

I don't think I've mentioned my proof of the aether for several years now

So long as it's better than Dwyer's proof of the existence of God

 

[two sheds]

Oh yes.

 

[Supine]

Who me? With my reputation?

So yes then

 

[toblerone3]

how about the power of the exclamation mark the factorial 3!= 6 and 10! = 3 million six hundred and twenty eight thousand, eight hundred (3,628,800)

 

[toblerone3]

You've got it all wrong. Only subtraction and addition are fundamental. multiplication and division are functions of lesser fundamentalness.

 

[8ball]

You've got it all wrong. Only subtraction and addition are fundamental. multiplication and division are functions of lesser fundamentalness.

I think 2hats is liable to come along at some point and tell everyone off.

 

[8ball]

Only subtraction and addition are fundamental.

Subtraction is just addition but backwards.

 

[2hats]

Thread needs more ket, thusly: |Ψ〉

(Someone appears to have confused symbols and operators).

 

[two sheds]

I think 2hats is liable to come along at some point and tell everyone off.

Don't know what you mean

(Someone appears to have confused symbols and operators).

Not necessarily, surely. Not all symbols are operators but all operators are (have) symbols.

"This is in the same way that Mount Everest is or that Alma Cogan isn't. "

 

[2hats]

Not necessarily, surely. Not all symbols are operators but all operators are (have) symbols.

This is true, but then someone started discussing operations.

 

[WouldBe]

i (I)

J (j) is used as a substitute for I (i), because for a great many years I (i) has been used to denote electrical current

And J is used for Joules.

 

[WouldBe]

This is true, but then someone started discussing operations.

X appendectomy Y =?

 

[Signal 11]

Well dark matter is clearly matter in the imaginary direction so it all makes sense to me. Or the aether as we used to call it in my day

Dark Matter vs. Aether

Probably the biggest single misconception I come across in popular discussions of dark matter and dark energy is the accusation that these concepts are a return to the discredited idea of the aether. They are not — in fact, they are precisely the opposite.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I don't think I've mentioned my proof of the aether for several years now

I don't think that's physics public group | Facebook

 

[kabbes]

Wtf is this shit?

 

[two sheds]

Dark Matter vs. Aether

Oooo ta will look at that.

 

[two sheds]

Wtf is this shit?

Which particular shit? The aether?

 

[kabbes]

Which particular shit? The aether?

The whole thread. The attempt to create maths without actually knowing any maths.