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Anonymous Mon 07 Dec 21:39:44 2020 No.12431622 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12431726 >>12431818

Are there any contradictions to Weyl's Tile Argument that don't require a PHD to understand?

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Anonymous Mon 07 Dec 2020 22:04:36 No.12431726 Report

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>>12431622
Any philosophical discussion on nature is pointless. If you read Aristotle you will find some absolutely retarded shit like all matter is made of platonic solids and each Platonic solid represents an element in nature. It's absolutely silly shit like saying that fire must be made of tetrahedrons because it's spikey lol (not kidding). I bet in 2000 years people will look at our philosophical arguments or even some super fundamental shit like string theory in the same light.

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Anonymous Mon 07 Dec 2020 22:21:49 No.12431818 Report

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>>12431622
Why are representations of a lie algebra of a symmetry group associated with fundamental particles?

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Anonymous Mon 07 Dec 2020 22:38:47 No.12431889 Report

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>>12431818
make your own post

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Anonymous Mon 07 Dec 2020 23:31:04 No.12432143 Report

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bump

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 02:27:08 No.12432740 Report

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>>12431726
Hold up
Links? You telling me Aristotle was a brainlet?

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 02:46:30 No.12432807 Report

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this has weyl's name attached to it, but doesn't seem like something he'd say

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Anonymous Tue 08 Dec 2020 03:01:21 No.12432856 Report

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>>12432740
I read Aristotle's works a while ago, but here's what I found through wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
>Plato wrote about them in the dialogue Timaeus c.360 B.C. in which he associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid. Earth was associated with the cube, air with the octahedron, water with the icosahedron, and fire with the tetrahedron. There was intuitive justification for these associations: the heat of fire feels sharp and stabbing (like little tetrahedra). Air is made of the octahedron; its minuscule components are so smooth that one can barely feel it. Water, the icosahedron, flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls. By contrast, a highly nonspherical solid, the hexahedron (cube) represents "earth". These clumsy little solids cause dirt to crumble and break when picked up in stark difference to the smooth flow of water. Moreover, the cube's being the only regular solid that tessellates Euclidean space was believed to cause the solidity of the Earth.

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