Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>>     As for math, would you say that, for example, the branch of mathematics
> >>> called geometry studies how the real world works or not?
> >
> >> Which geometry? Euclidean geometry? Elliptic geometry? Hyperbolic
> >> geometry? Some sort of non-homogeneous geometry?
> >
> >> Pure mathematics studies these geometries purely for their own sake. One
> >> or other of them /may/ correspond to the real world.
> >
> >    The very word "geometry" means "measuring land" (from ancient greek
> > geo = earth/land, metri = measurement).

> And the very word "atom" means "cannot be cut". Not without a particle 
> accelerator, anyway...

  So what you are implying with that sentence is that the concept of geometry
being used to measure and describe the real world is bogus?

  (And if what you are implying is that geometry is not an accurate
representation of the real world, making it a non-science, then by the
same logic Newtonian mechanics is not science. Heck, General Relativity is
most probably not science by the same argument.)

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                                                          - Warp

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