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On Jan 29, 3:51 pm, "zzbun...@netscape.net" <zzbun...@netscape.net>
wrote:
> On Jan 29, 6:29 pm, Michael Helland <mobyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 28, 10:45 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > >http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...
>
> > >http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=685dc5bb...
> > > Albert Einstein: "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot
> > > be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous structures.
> > > Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the
> > > theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary
> > > physics."
>
> > I think I read this in "The Later Years".
>
> > Einstein mentioned, if I recall correctly, right after this that some
> > discrete program may be what physics needs, be is as of yet beyond our
> > know how.
>
> > Of course, that was in the first part of last century.
>
> > Did you know Leibniz was advocating a discrete alternative to Newton
> > in the 1700s?
>
> > He also envisioned computer systems to support it.
>
>   Every mathematician since Pythagorus envisioned
>   computers to support all things. but as yet
>   the only thing the support is 20 years of taxes.

That's not true.

At least, not to the degree that it was true for Leibniz. He actually
built a computer in the 1600s.

Wikipedia:

"Leibniz may have been the first computer scientist and information
theorist. Early in life, he discovered the binary number system (base
2), which was later (and is now) used on most computers, then
revisited that system throughout his career. (See Couturat, 1901: 473-
78.) He anticipated Lagrangian interpolation and algorithmic
information theory. His calculus ratiocinator anticipated aspects of
the universal Turing machine. In 1934, Norbert Wiener claimed to have
found in Leibniz's writings a mention of the concept of feedback,
central to Wiener's later cybernetic theory.

In 1671, Leibniz began to invent a machine that could execute all four
arithmetical operations, gradually improving it over a number of
years. This 'Stepped Reckoner' attracted fair attention and was the
basis of his election to the Royal Society in 1673. A number of such
machines were made during his years in Hanover, by a craftsman working
under Leibniz's supervision. It was not an unambiguous success because
it did not fully mechanize the operation of carrying. Couturat (1901:
115) reported finding an unpublished note by Leibniz, dated 1674,
describing a machine capable of performing some algebraic operations.

Leibniz was groping towards hardware and software concepts worked out
much later in 1830-1845 by Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. In 1679,
while mulling over his binary arithmetic, Leibniz imagined a machine
in which binary numbers were represented by marbles, governed by a
rudimentary sort of punched cards.[3] Modern electronic digital
computers replace Leibniz's marbles moving by gravity with shift
registers, voltage gradients, and pulses of electrons, but otherwise
they run roughly as Leibniz envisioned in 1679. Davis (2000) discusses
Leibniz's prophetic role in the emergence of calculating machines and
of formal languages."



> > As of right now, we have those computer systems.
>
>   And of as rigtht now, we have lasers to show that both
>   computer theory and Q.M. are well photonic crapola.
>
> > It's time to look at the discrete program Einstein knew would replace
> > his castle.
>
> >http://www.cloudmusiccompany.com/paper.htm