Thank you for your information. What I want to know is about thermodynamics if we hyperkomplexify the temperature, not just imaginarize it as prof Baez did....
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Armahedi Mahzar
armahedi
Dec 29, 2011 5:07 pm
Sorry, it is not finished yet. I am still learning my new android tablet. What I am curious is the other side of prof Baez' idea. what you try to understand is...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Dec 29, 2011 6:25 pm
Hi all - I recently bought Geoffrey Dixon's new book: "Division Algebras, Lattices, Physics, Windmill Tilting" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463730802 ...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Jan 3, 2012 10:47 pm
Hello all who continue to be interested in my posts towards a redefined exponentiation using Burgin hypernumbers. In the last post I finished defining the...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Jan 4, 2012 11:08 pm
I need to be more careful when saying things like: "The definitions now work." I should learn to always anticipate the inevitable mistake and rather say e.g.:...
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John A
johnashuster
Jan 6, 2012 3:56 am
Reply to Burgin-7 "Milestone Post" Jens -- Forgive my late reply, but my brain has not wanted to do mathematics over the holidays : ). I did have problems...
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John A
johnashuster
Jan 6, 2012 11:19 pm
CORRECTED REPLY to Burgin-7 "Milestone Post" (This posting corrects the major misunderstanding in my last post. Please ignore that post, and Jens, please...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Jan 8, 2012 9:12 pm
Hi John (and all) - thanks so much, as always, for your review and corrections! I am a bit embarrassed on how many symbols are needed to describe such a simple...
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John A
johnashuster
Jan 9, 2012 6:08 pm
You wrote: "In academia a typical response is anywhere between a month to never, which averages out to "never" unless you use an averaging algorithm that...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Feb 12, 2012 7:26 pm
Hello all who are following the "generalized exponentiation" trail of posts. Sorry for the irregular updates, In the "Burgin (7)" thread I had arrived at a set...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Feb 16, 2012 10:44 pm
Hello - in this post I was planning to show arithmetic of generalized exponentiation a^b where both a and b are rational. As it turns out, I have to change...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Feb 17, 2012 11:02 pm
Hello - here's the post where I'll discuss arithmetic of generalized exponentiation. The configuration space for now are the rationals, but the argument here...
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John A
johnashuster
Feb 18, 2012 2:02 am
Jens, you seem to have offered an interesting way of how to * slide * your generalized exponentiation problem for octonions into the framework of the E8...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Feb 19, 2012 4:27 am
Hi John - thank you so much for the encouraging words! There is a whole new world of unknowns out there now, the world of lattices, and I'm trying not to think...
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John A
johnashuster
Feb 21, 2012 1:07 am
Jens, here are my comments on Burgin-10. I believe you successfully define general hypernumber multiplication and addition, but "sketchily, as you admit. 1) I...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Feb 21, 2012 10:55 pm
Hi John - thanks for saving a poor physicist soul from mathematical free-fall :) You helped me realize that I never thought about telling anyone here where...
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John A
johnashuster
Feb 22, 2012 7:42 pm
Jens, please go ahead a update your Hn_Glossary, as a flat text file if you wish. I suggest each "term" to be defined (ideally bolded or underlined) be on a...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Feb 24, 2012 1:52 pm
... I think this is (too) simple: A sequence over the rationals could e.g. be 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, ... etc whereas an eumeration is a bijective map from a whole...
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John A
johnashuster
Feb 24, 2012 8:58 pm
Jens and HCers: As I frequently tell my friends, "STUPID is on the increase, worldwide." My last post offered my own brand of this affliction:) ... JS2: DA! ...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Feb 25, 2012 3:19 pm
... b^omega ... The set of sequences made from 0s or 1s: b^omega := { (b_k)_alpha in {0. 1}, k in omega, alpha in N } ... G^omega(phi) ... The set of sequences...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Feb 26, 2012 4:36 am
John, as it turns out, your feeling that Seq{P} was unneeded was also correct (although of course not exactly the way you wrote). So, in your last post,...
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John A
johnashuster
Feb 27, 2012 6:26 pm
Ok, glad I could "alert" us! [I try not to take myself too seriously. This site is not where I should express my polical opinion about the Stpd(t), worldwide:)...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Mar 3, 2012 10:28 pm
Hi John - thanks for your support! Just quickly re definitions: You wrote ... Right - my bad. I wrongly use the "element in" symbol, whereas I should have used...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Mar 11, 2012 1:16 am
Hello - just quickly: Minor typos fixed in the attached glossary files. Nothing not already written here, no need to go through it, for your reference only....
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Mar 13, 2012 9:48 pm
Hello hello - this post quickly presents Burgin extrafunctions. I know I told you that I'll write about extraderivatives next, but really I shouldn't skip...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Mar 14, 2012 9:55 pm
Oopsie - I forgot part of the second example that started with "Let f and g ..." - here's the part that deals with the "... and g". I also realize that chosing...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Mar 17, 2012 7:43 pm
Hyperdifferentiation and extraderivatives - here's where I think it gets exciting. Up until now I've shown how Burgin hypernumbers are represented by an...
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John A
johnashuster
Mar 29, 2012 4:04 pm
It is rare when one can witness a fresh look at Quantum Theory in the making, especially that bugaboo about the "observer" influencing the result. Jens, thanks...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
Mar 30, 2012 12:39 pm
You're too kind, John. And you know that no matter how many people complained about the way we do quantum mechanics today in physics, there's always the chance...
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Jens Koeplinger
jens_koeplinger
May 25, 2012 11:55 am
Now that's an exciting motto for an essay contest, and the timing is great as well: http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1263 They say submissions due by...