[7] First units

Foundational Questions Institute: Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability Essay Contest (2019-2020) Support materials for the submission by Bruce Camber in April 2020.

Determinant becomes unpredictable, uncomputable, and undecidable (PDF)

[1] Decidability
[2] Computability
[3] Predictability
Transmogrification
[4] Undecidability
[5] Uncomputability
[6] Unpredictability
[7] First units
[8] Grand reductionism
[9] Triangulation
[10] Fourier
[11] Lorentz
[12] Poincaré spheres
[13] Planckspheres
One second: 299,792± km
[14] Automorphic forms
[15] BASE-2 AND PRIME NUMBERS
[16] Aristotle’s Mistake
[17] Fuzzy Universe
[18] Scholars
Background: The FQXi challenge is the second time our simple model has been placed in a public square.  The first time, in 2012, it was curtailed as original research by a Wikipedia editor at MIT who recognized that the work was not within current academic research. It took us at least three years to believe that something so simple had not been explored. Well, it appears that it is too simple so we continue exploring the logic; and, this exercise with FQXi has been most helpful in opening a cursory understanding of the breadth of the logic involved in these matters.

[7] The stories behind this story.  The current homepages tell the most consistent story about the development of these ideas: