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What about Points? A Pointless Thread - 10-24-2006, 10:21 AM

In our attempts to describe nature, we invented mathematics to help us idealize the world. Points, lines and surfaces are all description of lower dimensions. Since all existence , all reality happens in 3 spatial dimensions (that we are aware off) we have to assume that all mathematical models are only approximations, a description with limited accuracy of what we see.
I have come to the conclusion that mathematics is just language, words that describe something, but that math in itself has no existence like words do not have existence outside a text, outside a book, outside a spoken sentence.
What is a perfect surface? It does not exist, since smoothness has a limit. The microscope defines the absolute limit at the Heisenberg's uncertainty. What we thought as molecules, atoms, particles, tangible objects with spatial expansion gives way to points that cannot be defined definitively but dwell as description of something else. Points do not have existence, they are states of information, like a pointer points, a point says something about something, but in itself has no existence. A particle is such a point, it is information of something else. This something else is a difference within the environment, a positive within a negative, a negative within a positive, something distinguishable from the background, something different within sameness. But what does it describe? The double split experiment points (pun intended) in the right direction. Existence exists as fields of energy in interaction with each other. Our senses give these fields reality by defining it within our senses (as objects) and then convey their existence in accordance with our spoken language (mathematics).
What does the world look like, if you cannot feel, see nor hear your environment.....


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