Modern numerology

[Tim Tyler]

The table at the top of:

http://www.causeeffect.org/articles/particle.html

...is one which any numerologists out there will approve of.

The page starts out:

``Particle Mass Ratios, and Similar Geometric Volume Ratios
by Carl R. Littmann, revised 11-30-2000
This article presents, less formally, and with added addendum, matters
in an earlier article I wrote, published in the Journal of Chemical
Information and Computer Sciences, 1995, 35 (pp. 579-580)

Whether by coincidence or not, certain particle mass ratios, in physics,
happen to be nearly equal to certain geometric ratios in simple
patterns. These patterns are somewhat analogous to "close packing" of
spheres. This article correlates some of these particle mass ratios
with some volumetric ratios in simple patterns.''
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[Eray Ozkural exa]

Well, finding such correlations do not show any physical cause. Do you
mean there may be a similar misconceived assumption in Calude's
article?

Regards,

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[Tim Tyler]

Eray Ozkural exa <exama...@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

Regarding: http://www.causeeffect.org/articles/particle.html

> Well, finding such correlations do not show any physical cause. Do you
> mean there may be a similar misconceived assumption in Calude's
> article?

By starting out with:

``Whether by coincidence or not, certain particle mass ratios, in physics,
happen to be nearly equal to certain geometric ratios in simple patterns.''

...the article says up-front that the observation could be some sort
of coincidence - so: I see no problem with the article on that front.

[exama...@gmail.com]

So how do we make sure that it is no coincidence?

I would be interested in giving an argument for the other direction of
'if and only if' which we imagine to be the case. It does not even have
to be as mathematically rigorous as Calude's AFAICT (but it would be
preferable of course if we could have such a rigorous argument! )
Regards,

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Eray Ozkural