LOGIC_MATH

Mathematics is a subset of logic and belongs in the list of ideas on the right side of the Tree Of Knowledge (TOK). This post has three comments on mathematics.

First, let me refer to the previous post on the importance of the list of ideas on the right of the TOK. The natural processes of our physical universe have their own laws. Physicists try to describe these processes with physical laws like Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation. Where would physics be without mathematics?

Second, the problem with our mathematics is that it is a flat Earth math. Think of a circular tube full of paint. Punch a small hole in the bottom and roll the tube along on a flat surface. Every time the hole touches the surface, it will leave a spot of paint. You can name these spots: 1 2 3 4 etc. The list of these names is infinite. You can also name these spots: 2 4 6 8 etc. The list of these even names is infinite. How can one have an infinite number of names and remove half the numbers and still have an infinite number of names? Logic says there is something wrong.

What we need is a cyclic mathematical system. Our physical universe cycles from one Big Bang to the next. Planets orbit their sun. History repeats itself, and illogical Beings pass through life and death cycles as they try to learn to reason logically.

Third, in my metaphysics article, I created a model of our physical universe from the idea of a point. This point became a spherical field of Space which contracted into ten other fields before the Big Bang. This model explains many objects and events we see today in our expanding universe, but it has a flaw. It contains no imaginary numbers. The term ‘imaginary’ is a misnomer. The square root of minus one is no different than any other number.

Our physical universe is a school. It exists to teach us how to reason logically. Everything we sense is a training aid, e.g., imaginary numbers. Think of a tape/belt with the real numbers on the outside and the imaginary numbers on the inside. Give this tape a twist to produce a mobius strip. My model needs a twist somewhere to include imaginary numbers. One cannot have a universe of ideas and omit imaginary numbers.