I am no one important, and not working on anything worthwhile.
I need your help though, /sci/, for reasons that amount to me winning a dinner argument with a stubborn asshole.
The basic mathematic operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Is the real reason that WE consider these the most basic arithmetic/mathematical operations, because they are just the easiest mathematical operations for our primate(monke) brains to grasp? Or is there an inherent reason in logic or the Universe in general, that these operations are somehow the building block platform for everything else?
On top of that though...
What is the simplest, and most basic example of these operations being executed, in our Universe? Smallest possible scale. Do we have equivalents of the basic mathematic operations occurring at the sub-atomic level or below? Or does multiplication and division not matter until atomic level or higher?
Please don't tell me that you have examples of basic math operations occurring at sub-sub atomic levels.
I need your help though, /sci/, for reasons that amount to me winning a dinner argument with a stubborn asshole.
The basic mathematic operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Is the real reason that WE consider these the most basic arithmetic/mathematical operations, because they are just the easiest mathematical operations for our primate(monke) brains to grasp? Or is there an inherent reason in logic or the Universe in general, that these operations are somehow the building block platform for everything else?
On top of that though...
What is the simplest, and most basic example of these operations being executed, in our Universe? Smallest possible scale. Do we have equivalents of the basic mathematic operations occurring at the sub-atomic level or below? Or does multiplication and division not matter until atomic level or higher?
Please don't tell me that you have examples of basic math operations occurring at sub-sub atomic levels.
