I am glad to see that I wasn't the only one who thought the Vortex Mathematics thing was a joke.
I'd be worried to know you had any doubts.
When TED Lost Control of Its Crowd
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "I don't mean to come off the wrong way, but did you even read the article?" IMO, there is no way to say the above and have it come off the right way. It falls into the same bucket as "with all due respect..." > "Most of it was about past transgressions and what they've done to tighten the brand." Yes, and my contention is that it will never be enough . This is not a unique problem - large, spread out organizations…
> and yet kooks still make it Can you please link me to someone you consider a kook on TED.com? The main couple kooks people talk about years later after TED has made changes like vortex math never make TED.com and for good reason. If you honestly believe less than 1% of TEDx video have any merit, I think that is fairly elitist of you.
While I don't have enough background to personally pass judgement on Allan Savory, Chris Clarke apparently does. It's not the full-on kookiness of vortex math, but apparently he feels that to an ecologist, his TED talk is "full of red flags":
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/east-ca/l...
I don't feel that one counterexample automatically disproves your main point, but it is a TED.com talk.
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#44I haven't studied his vortex mathematics thoroughly, but it seems the "universal numerical pattern" he identified is completely biased towards the decimal base?
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#46I've not seen the video, but I am always eager to hear about research that opens new perspectives to Maths, even when it's wrong. It may serve as an inspiration or is a waste of time, but that's the cost of advancements in science.
If you know links to papers or theories of other people that are worth looking into, let me know. I can't tell if the theories of Mr. Powell have any merit or foundation. But I'll find out myself after seeing the longish video.
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Ken Ono and Srinivasa Ramanujan's theories put new perspectives into our understanding of Maths that goes way beyond what most people understand. Even those advanced in Maths have difficulties grasping it.
This is my opinion, but I think the research of these and other important people reveals a Fractal nature in Maths and Physics. What's missing is the link to Chemisry and Biology. There are relations to fractals and all nature sciences we don't know about.
Yes, I've actually read the books and papers from these people. Yes there were a lot of parts I had trouble understanding, but ideas are easy to grasp, their Mathematical proof is not.
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#47I haven't studied his vortex mathematics thoroughly, but it seems the "universal numerical pattern" he identified is completely biased towards the decimal base?
All he did is "discover" a generator of the group of units of the integers modulo 9, namely, 2. Mod 9, the powers of 2 are 2, 4, 8, 7, 5, 1. The remaining three numbers modulo 9 he joins in a triangle.
This is all.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that he was reading his entire presentation verbatim should have tipped everybody off in the first minute or so. Nobody who's "at the forefront of the most advanced mathematics ever known to mankind" needs that much notes to talk about it. Shoot, I've never had a prof that needed that kind of help... and they're teaching 2nd year courses.
"The saying is that mathematics is the language of god, but until now, no one has been speaking gods language" "What we have is the great unifying field theory, with it you can create and exhaust free energy, end all diseases, produce unlimited food, travel anywhere in the universe, build the ultimate supercomputer, artificial intelligence, and obsolete all existing technology." All in the first minute. I don't think…
wow, that's rad! I should watch that video definately then at some later point :D haha
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#49I am curious on what you people think about the Constructal theory. Please let me know.
http://www.constructal.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructal_theory
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#50I haven't studied his vortex mathematics thoroughly, but it seems the "universal numerical pattern" he identified is completely biased towards the decimal base?
All he did is "discover" a generator of the group of units of the integers modulo 9, namely, 2. Mod 9, the powers of 2 are 2, 4, 8, 7, 5, 1. The remaining three numbers modulo 9 he joins in a triangle. This is all.
I see what you mean :D