Wheeler sure did make me look like a bit of a mug yesterday. After I’d been suggesting we’d likely let him go in summer, he was my MOTM yesterday. Outstanding performance at right back. Can’t see anyone else starting there over him if he plays like that.
As well as facts and opinions, there are facts that we will never know.
There must be a ‘right’ answer to speculative questions like how fast would Senna have been in Lewis Hamilton’s car, but we’ll never get to find out what that answer is.
I guess it depends which type of day we are talking about - solar or a sidereal day. The former having 24 hours or thereabouts as @drcongo indicates and the latter having just over 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds.
I initially thought this was wrong, but on thinking about it a bit further I agree with it. If you take a fairly straightforward and purely mechanical situation, then I think it's reasonable to describe a projected result based on that situation as a "fact". For example, if a rocket of a given mass in a vacuum accelerates at x rate, then it's reasonable to call it a fact that, if you could double the power without affecting the mass, it would accelerate at a rate of 2x.
If you take the view that humans are entirely mechanical, then it would theoretically be possible to calculate every possible variable affecting Senna's use of Lewis Hamilton's car, and therefore how fast Senna would have gone in it. The calculations are theoretically possible, but in practice nowhere near doable.
We're perilously close to Laplace's demon territory here - is there really such a thing as free wil?
This reminds me of heated arguments with our teacher at school 30 years ago, with us insistent that 9.99 recurring isn't the same as 10 with him saying the opposite
@Malone An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first says, “I’ll have a beer.” The second says, “I’ll have half a beer.” The third says, “I’ll have a quarter of a beer.” Before anyone else can speak, the barman fills up exactly two glasses of beer and serves them. “Come on, now,” he says to the group, “You guys have got to learn your limits.”
@Malone makes a good point - truth is presented a lot more as relative now. You hear people say things like "I know my truth" rather than "I know the truth".
Non Euclidean geometry would beg to differ on point two. But on the general point of mathematics always having axioms from which the same proofs, and thus facts, can can be derived I am of the opinion that you are right.
Also Mehmeti and Scowen were superb yesterday. Also a fact.
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Wheeler sure did make me look like a bit of a mug yesterday. After I’d been suggesting we’d likely let him go in summer, he was my MOTM yesterday. Outstanding performance at right back. Can’t see anyone else starting there over him if he plays like that.
As well as facts and opinions, there are facts that we will never know.
There must be a ‘right’ answer to speculative questions like how fast would Senna have been in Lewis Hamilton’s car, but we’ll never get to find out what that answer is.
I guess it depends which type of day we are talking about - solar or a sidereal day. The former having 24 hours or thereabouts as @drcongo indicates and the latter having just over 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds.
I initially thought this was wrong, but on thinking about it a bit further I agree with it. If you take a fairly straightforward and purely mechanical situation, then I think it's reasonable to describe a projected result based on that situation as a "fact". For example, if a rocket of a given mass in a vacuum accelerates at x rate, then it's reasonable to call it a fact that, if you could double the power without affecting the mass, it would accelerate at a rate of 2x.
If you take the view that humans are entirely mechanical, then it would theoretically be possible to calculate every possible variable affecting Senna's use of Lewis Hamilton's car, and therefore how fast Senna would have gone in it. The calculations are theoretically possible, but in practice nowhere near doable.
We're perilously close to Laplace's demon territory here - is there really such a thing as free wil?
This reminds me of heated arguments with our teacher at school 30 years ago, with us insistent that 9.99 recurring isn't the same as 10 with him saying the opposite
Took a fair few years to realise he was right.
@Malone An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first says, “I’ll have a beer.” The second says, “I’ll have half a beer.” The third says, “I’ll have a quarter of a beer.” Before anyone else can speak, the barman fills up exactly two glasses of beer and serves them. “Come on, now,” he says to the group, “You guys have got to learn your limits.”
In the UK, if sold in a glass, you’re only allowed to sell beer as a third, a half, or two-thirds of a pint; or in multiples of half a pint.
Depends on which measurement scale you are using.
Yep. 2+2 = 4 today, as that's the convention we use today
Tomorrow there might be some new way.
We're in a world where all sorts of norms have been dumped on their heads, and where "wicked" means "good", so why not have 2+2 not =5 one day too?
2+2 = 4 would be true even if there were no humans to perceive that truth.
The shape that we call a triangle will always have internal angles of 180 degrees.
Some things are not just convention, they are mathematical truths.
Whereas words (and the meanings we give them) would cease to exist without humans.
@Malone makes a good point - truth is presented a lot more as relative now. You hear people say things like "I know my truth" rather than "I know the truth".
Non Euclidean geometry would beg to differ on point two. But on the general point of mathematics always having axioms from which the same proofs, and thus facts, can can be derived I am of the opinion that you are right.
Also Mehmeti and Scowen were superb yesterday. Also a fact.
If time ends tonight, just after tea time, then 2+2=4 will not be true tomorrow.
Isn't a day slightly less than 24 hours , hence the need for an extra day every 4 years built into February?
One FACT from yesterday is that the new kit is my favourite yet. So much so that I bought my first football shirt in about 10 years!
In other news, what was D'mani Mellor trying to pull off his back whilst running with the ball? Looked very awkward.
Cue a discussion on time spacetime general relativity and crumpets
This do?
All hail Douglas Adams
It looked like he was trying to tuck his shirt back in. Bit odd.
Something fell off the back of him but it was most bizarre that he did that mid-flow.
GPS tracker?
His tracking unit perhaps?
Wasn't @drcongo 's post itself a subtle reference to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe? I assumed it was
It was, well spotted. Douglas Adams is one of my heroes.
Douglas Adams should be everyone’s hero
I’ll have a go:
‘Red is blue’
is a statement
is not a fact
is not an opinion
Stockdale appeared to be somewhat let down by his defence yesterday.
Long may it continue!
Schrodinger's cat, fact or opinion?