Looking Northeast => Hall United Methodist Church and Two Homes, Seen Along The Main Road That Leads North From Town Center.
…. “Then, having identified the nature of geometric axioms, he { Poincaré] ] turned to the question, Is Euclidian geometry true or is Riemann geometry true?
…He answered, The question has no meaning.
…You might as well ask whether the metric system is true and the avoirdupois system is false; whether Cartesian coordinates are true and polar coordinates are false. One geometry can not be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
,,,,Poincaré then went on to demonstrate the conventional nature of other concepts of science, such as space and time, showing that there isn’t one way of measuring these entities that is more true than another; that which is generally adopted is only more convenient.”
,,,,Our concepts of space and time are also definitions, selected on the basis of their convenience in handling the facts.
,,,,This radical understanding of our most basic scientific concepts is not yet complete, however. The mystery of what is space and time may be made more understandable by this explanation, but now the burden of sustaining the order of the universe rests on "facts." What are facts? .
,,,,Poincaré proceeded to examine these critically. Which facts are you going to observe? he asked. There is an infinity of them. There is no more chance that an unselective observation of facts will produce science than there is that a monkey at a typewriter will produce the Lord’s Prayer.
Rt-1, About 0.4 Mile North Of Crossroad At Town Center, Hall, MT.
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