On Monday, August 20, 2018 at 2:11:38 PM UTC+1, Mike Collins wrote:
Paul Schlyter wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 10:54:14 -0600, Chris L Peterson
wrote:
Math isn't science. Math isn't related to how the Universe works.

Math is really philosophy.


Gilbert said “Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple
rules with meaningless marks on paper.”.

Making things up as you go along doesn't inspire anything so had you researched the quote properly you would have discovered something of value.

" For the formalist, arithmetic is a game with signs, which are
called empty. That means they have no other content (in
the calculating game) than they are assigned by their
behaviour with respect to certain rules of combination (rules
of the game)."

https://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2005-April/008887.html


Arithmetic as a function of mathematics must refer to some physical thing and therein is the bright shining lie of mathematical empiricism.

The Earth's surface expressed in terms of time and distance is defined as Latitude/Longitude where

15° geographical distance = 1 hour time difference

15 ° rotation per hour equates to 360° in 24 hours.

The Equatorial speed of the Earth is therefore 1037.5 miles per hour or 1669.5 Km per hour within the 24 hour and Lat/Long system.

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/launch-windows/en/

Unfortunately the people at NASA assign an Equatorial speed of 1041 mile per hour giving a meaningless Equatorial circumference of 24,984 mile circumference.