[lbo-talk] Freezing liquids and primes...

[Shane Mage]

On May 9, 2012, at 1:50 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> Here's one for you Chuck:
>
> http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/05/General-Science-Physics-Freezing-Liquids-Help-To-Predict-Properties-Of-Prime-Numbers/?et_cid=2627963&et_rid=234261489&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2fNews%2f2012%2f05%2fGeneral-Science-Physics-Freezing-Liquids-Help-To-Predict-Properties-Of-Prime-Numbers%2f

And for all Materialists: explain, please, how comes it that the  
abstract world of *pure* mathematics would correspond with the  
structure of physical reality?

Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all  
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even  
downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all  
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)