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

[123hop at comcast.net]

Awwww Shane, don't go all Platonic on me now.... 

At any rate, I don't see how this sinks materialism. Does materialism have to be arbitrary?

Joanna 

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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) 

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