22 ideas
20457 | Zeno assumes collecting an infinity of things makes an infinite thing [Rovelli] |
20468 | Quantum mechanics deals with processes, rather than with things [Rovelli] |
20467 | Quantum mechanics describes the world entirely as events [Rovelli] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
20469 | There are probably no infinities, and 'infinite' names what we do not yet know [Rovelli] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
20461 | The basic ideas of fields and particles are merged in quantum mechanics [Rovelli] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
20462 | Because it is quantised, a field behaves like a set of packets of energy [Rovelli] |
20463 | There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields [Rovelli] |
20464 | The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime [Rovelli] |
20460 | Electrons are not waves, because their collisions are at a point, and not spread out [Rovelli] |
20459 | Electrons only exist when they interact, and their being is their combination of quantum leaps [Rovelli] |
20466 | Quantum Theory describes events and possible interactions - not how things are [Rovelli] |
20465 | Nature has three aspects: granularity, indeterminacy, and relations [Rovelli] |
20458 | The world is just particles plus fields; space is the gravitational field [Rovelli] |
20470 | Only heat distinguishes past from future [Rovelli] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |