seeing more math on the TL recently. i haven't mathposted in a long time but i'm still happy to field math questions from twitter peeps, just reply here or tag me or w/e. big meaty philosophical questions like "wtf are real numbers anyway" would be particularly fun for me rn
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Ohhh mathposting!! I'm always pleasantly surprised when you post math stuff. How do you see these if your notifs are follow-only? OK real math question: do you think everything has a physical meaning, or just accept abstract number trickery?
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i check the replies manually. the question is a little vague but probably the latter. already in a very basic way you can describe numbers that are so large they couldn’t possibly occur in physics - 10^150 or so should already do it
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But it's an operation I can physically relate to, multiplying 10 a bunch of times. But yea add a minus sign and... I think it's maybe more... Placing it in a useful context? Like the quantum thing you said. Better Q might be, does every math thing have a useful context.
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Completely unrelated: mentioned you as one of the people he'd like to invite in his workshop and I think it'd be pretty cool to chat more about math and acid and feelings or whatever :)))
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