From: abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian)
Subject: TIME HAS INERTIA   - STRICTLY FOR DEVOTED READERS OF: TIME HAS INERTIA
Summary:  ABIAN not pre-Galilean but post-Einsteinian, post-Planckian
Keywords:  Attention Mr. ELI HAWKINS
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:54:33 GMT

 STRICTLY FOR DEVOTED READERS OF:   TIME HAS INERTIA

Dear Mr. Eli Hawkins,

Thank you for your 1-7-93 posting in TIME HAS INERTIA.

I will comment on some of your remarks.

I am quite, quite well acquainted with a multitude of areas of human
intellectual, especially creative, endeavors.  I am well acquainted
with world literature, with music, especially classical, with various
art forms, especially painting, with mathematics (almost all branches
of it) with physics, with chemistry, with high technology, etc., etc.

With all of this if you ask me what is the greatest (if such a thing 
exists) human intellectual achievement,   I will say:

                     THE ORDINARY LANGUAGE

The ordinary language is the best tool which develops, sharpens and 
polishes the human intellect.  The ordinary language is the REAL MIRACLE 
OF CREATION. IT IS THE MECHANISM OF RATIONALITY. IT IS THE MECHANISM OF 
REASONING.  THE ORDINARY LANGUAGE IS THE LIFE OF THE LIFE.    
  
Our sorrows, our joys, our decisions, our plans, our agenda of life,
our social, scientific projects etc., are , all, all formulated and 
expressed in THE ORDINARY LANGUAGE.

Our approval of a scientific theory, our approval of a mathematical
theory, our acceptance of a formula or equation or a principle  ex-
pressed in the most formal and technical language, our appraisal of
that formulation  IS DONE IN ORDINARY LANGUAGE.  

A high tech product is judged, praised, accepted or rejected  BY MEANS
OF JUDGMENT MADE IN ORDINARY LANGUAGE.  

The understanding of a proof of a complicated highly nontrivial 
theorem  or of a statement IS FINALLY DONE IN ORDINARY LANGUAGE.

So, please do not teach me or lecture me about contrasts between
Scientific and in particular Mathematical language and the ORDINARY
LANGUAGE.

 Dear Eli, your posting, your remarks and comments about my posting
were expressed in ORDINARY LANGUAGE.   

 The closer is  the mathematical language to the ordinary language
the more deeper is the imprint of the  (mathematical) reasoning
involved in our brain. 

In fact, I do not agree with you that Mathematical language is a truly 
simple language, unambiguous, clear cut, unemotional, etc.,  No, no. 

Mathematical language is a most emotional, romantic and sensuous
language.  

THE NOTION OF A REAL NUMBER ITSELF IS A QUITE MYSTERIOUS NOTION AND 
AN ENIGMATIC ITEM and far from being clear cut and unambiguous.


Whether you define a real number as a Dedekind cut of a Linearly
ordered set, or as a class of Cauchy sequences or (the best of all)
AS A PICTURE GIVING A REAL NUMBER IN ITS DECIMAL REPRESENTATION -  THE 
CONTINUUM MANY (i.e.  2^ Aleph zero) CHOICES AFTER THE DECIMAL POINT  
IS THE SOURCE OF THE REAL MYSTERY AND ROMANTICISM. 

So do not tell me that Mathematics is a clear cut precise unemotional 
UNAMBIGUOUS LANGUAGE and hence essentially superior to the ORDINARY
LANGUAGE (and do not teach me about METALANGUAGE  etc.  I know this stuff
very well - just  today I received the reprints of my 237-th math
paper - so I am quite well acquainted with MATHEMATICAL LANGUAGE and its
CAPABILITIES).

What is Mathematics ?  Mathematics is the art of impressive reasoning.
What do I mean by  "impressive"  I can't define it - it is something that
you will recognize and feel it when you encounter it !
  
So, any "impressive reasoning", be it in literature, be it in painting,
be it in music, be it in physics, chemistry or art of cooking or in
salad making IS MATHEMATICS.

Dear Eli, do not try to put me down by saying "Abian, your statement
that the reason behind a particle's action is to gain a feeling of
security"  is a PRE-GALILEAN APPROACH.  No.  

The same way that FREUD'S explanation of human behavior was not a 
PRE-VOODOO approach, and, the same way that Freud's asking
"WHY"  created the  POST-VOODOO  approach,  my (A1) - (A4)  is 
creating the POST-FREUDIAN, POST-EINSTEINIAN, POST-PLANCKIAN and
POST-DARWINIAN approach. 

In fact, I am being quite modest, and humble in describing my role
in creating the NEW SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION!  Yes ! quite humble and
unassuming !
            
The idea that TIME HAS INERTIA and that some cosmic energy is irre-
trievably dissipated is  definitely post-Einsteinian, post-Planckian,
and post-Darwinian and post-Marxist approach.  

I received a telephone call informing me that someone in Sweden has
suggested my name  for the Nobel Prize. It seemed to be untrue.  But
who knows in every lie there is some truth!

Dear Eli, it is almost  4 months that no one has given a convincing
reasoning why  "electric like charges repel" .  I have yet to
hear a more convincing reasoning than mine, i.e.,   " they don't 
repel - the space repels them  since the space tends to maintain its
electrical neutrality".  As mentioned before, Fermi liked my answer
and was quite impressed. He said that he had no better explanation.

Dear Eli, I hope that you will observe that your comments, my
remarks about your comments, our understanding of "Superiority"
of this and that over this and that ARE ALL MADE BY MEANS OF THE
MIRACULOUS ORDINARY LANGUAGE!

I am exhausted now and have to stop and hear Chopin's Etude in C major.
With love.

                                  Alexander ABIAN

P.S. I will post a short and clear proof of Goedel's Theorem  very soon.

  The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preser-
  vation of favoured races in the struggle for life.    C.Darwin (1859)

  The future of species by means of rational alteration of the cosmos,
  or the preservation of intelligent races in the struggle for life
                                                         A. Abian (1992)



-- 
   The tendency of maintaining the status-quo, Reaction to provocation and
                The tendency of maintaining again a status-quo.  
    TIME HAS INERTIA  and some energy is lost to move Time forward  
  E = mcc  (Einstein)    must be replaced by    E = m(0) exp(-At) (Abian)
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