On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 11:24:37 AM UTC+3, Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> Alright, the negative numbers, a big bugaboo of math, a nemesis.
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> Now I realize that an "attitude in science" is antiscience. We have to be objective at all times, never subjective-- unless subjectivity is what you are researching into.
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> And over in sci.physics, at the moment I have a thread on "failures of physics" and one common denominator of all those listed failures, is that they have a "subjective mind, never a objective mind" and the reason they are failures. Now, believe it or not, most activities in science want to be 100% objective, but find themselves very often, immersed in subjectivity.
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> Anyway, getting onto Negative Numbers. I realize I am being subjective, by a desire to outright throw out all negative numbers. To do all of mathematics in 1st Quadrant Only. That is a subjective desire by me. Unless, however, I can show that the Negative Numbers do need a separating apart from positive numbers.
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> Through the years I have been working on this problem, and found I cannot escape the existence of Negative Numbers. They exist, but are much different from positive numbers.
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> I cannot find any suitable replacement for negative charge in physics. I cannot find a suitable replacement for a negative slope in Y = mx + b.
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> So I admit the Negative Numbers exist. But, what I can do, is let them exist where they are and ignore them only until they demand attention, such as a negative slope or a negative charge.
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> Now the Negative Numbers share something in common with positive irrational numbers-- both are irrational, both are infinite numbers.
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> And since I have to ignore Positive Irrationals, why not ignore Negative Numbers, unless ignoring is impossible.
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> Now does Physics tell us anything similar to this befuddling problem? Anything in Physics similar to Negative Numbers? Well yes, a huge and important topic of Physics occurred in the middle of the 1900s called Renormalization, one of Feynman's and others in QED achievements. Renormalization in Physics was discovered because infinities kept creeping into the math equations of Quantum Electrodynamics, and these infinities had to be removed to make sense of the physics. So Renormalization was a math tool to throw out infinities. No-one in the 20th century ever realized how hugely important Renormalization was not only for physics, but for mathematics. I cannot throw out the Negatives, but I can renormalize them. How is that possible?
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> Well, given any function we draw its graph in 4 quadrants, then we do a renormalization by scooting the entire function up into the 1st Quadrant Only. By doing this, I acknowledge the Negatives exist, but I ignore them once I moved, scooted the function into the 1st Quadrant Only.
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> That means in New Math, irrationals exist but are ignored, negatives exist but are irrational and ignored, and 0 exists but is irrational, infinite and it is impossible to ignore. Then, that leaves us with imaginary numbers which are fictional, or fake, and complex numbers are also fictional and fake.
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> So that about does it.
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> AP