AngelRho wrote:
Exclavius wrote:
I have resolved it though, but it's open for debate. "Nothing is absolute" really means "nothing is absolutely positive/true"
And, the statement is indeed an absolute... but it's an absolute negative... So really doesn't violate itself.
Sorry, but it still doesn't work.
the quantum waveform for a photon's speed(s`) at time t` would look something like a normal distribution around mean c.
It would be truncated at speed 0.
p(s` < 0) = 0
ergo, negative absolute.
1 < p(s` > v` where v` is any positive real number) > 0
p(s` >= 0) < 1
why? there are other quantum possibilities, such as the photon colliding with an anti-photon and annihilating each other, thus not existing at t`, thus s` would be undefined (NOT infinite)
You cannot have an absolute certainty, due to quantum physics.
But there are things that are absolutely impossible.
in reality probability is bounded by the interval [0,1) not [0,1]
Another example is Pythagoras proof, it proves that you CANNOT express a rational number (ie, square root of 2) as the quotient of two integers (ie counting numbers)
This proves something CAN be impossible, regardless of quantum effects for that matter.
Quantum shows that things CANNOT be certain.
ergo all possibilities belong to [0,1)
Not sure how else to put it so that you can understand it.
One thing I'll add though, is that with semantics, we can make a negative proposition "sound" like a positive one, and vice versa. you have to any "absolute" proposition to see if it's net implication is one way or the other.
I'm not surprised to see you fight this AngelRho, because the corollary of this, is that your absolute god, absolutely cannot exist. Everything is limited by it's environment.
23 May 2010, 12:16 am
