Real Science Radio Goes To Math Class

[gcthomas]

To annoy Jokia, of course.

So you didn't mean to look like you were back-pedalling once you realised you had acted like a numpty by posting it?

 

[Stripe]

So you didn't mean to look like you were back-pedalling once you realised you had acted like a numpty by posting it?

Nope.

You could read what I said about it. :idunno:

Oh, wait. I think that might have been in a June 11 post that got deleted.

 

[Lighthouse]

Oh goodness, got me on that one. Actually your math discussion seems to be verging on to some metaphysical "non-physical realm of the universe as we know it". Sorry such philosophical discussions are above my pay grade. Don't have any experience in that non-physical realm.

You have no experience with thought? I can believe that.

 

[Jefferson]

More liberal censorship:

Atheists are rather touchy on this subject. For example, when this RSR article was first posted, we provided Cherenkov radiation as an example of a pre-discovery as already described for years on Wikipedia. Yet shortly after we made that point (and the link), the Wikipedia article was edited (as happens, including for example when we posted about mammoths) to downplay the extraordinary significance of the prediction of this radiation made in the 1880s by Oliver Heaviside!

 

[Stripe]

More liberal censorship:

Here is the history page for the Cherenkov entry. Can you point out the entry that made the changes you referred to?

 

[gcthomas]

More liberal censorship:

What is this "pre-discovery" of which you speak?

Is it similar to the scientific process of making a prediction from theory?

If so, then there will be thousands of examples for you to find.