Audio Banter - View Single Post - Super discussion about negative numbers on the BBC

**Nick Gorham** · March 19th 06, 07:14 PM posted to rec.audio.tubes,uk.rec.audio

wrote:
Nick:

Oxygen will be the same wherever and whatever (like pi). What may be
different would be allotropes and isotopes. One has to be fairly
careful when nibbling around the edges of very basic science (and
math). Those things have immutable aspects despite fondest wishes to
the contrary. My contention is that it will be those aspects that will
allow the initiation of communications between species that otherwise
share _NOTHING_ else in common.

I wrote a shorter version of this that seems to have disappeared.
Please forgive if it suddenly appears.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

Sorry, I disagre, we can consider the existance of situations where the
large scale chemical action of atoms is different, it would only take a
altered value for one of the fundimental relationships, Planck's
constant for one example. And we cannot know with certantity that these
altered conditions do not exist at some distant point in space. However
we do not know of a way of constructing a plain geometry that has a
different ratio between the circumferance of a circle and its diameter.
This is why I am suggesting that your claim that oxygen is as universal
as pi is incorrect.

Maybe you are used to considering maths a tool of other sciences,
instead of a thing apart, you comment earlier along the lines that it
was just the study and description of "real" world events and actions
indicates that.

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Nick