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Danu

10:50

So... do you guys think that perhaps it is time to post a follow-up meta question to the Proposal - since the reception seemed to be (fairly) positive

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ACuriousMind

11:54

@Danu What kind of follow-up question? Perhaps it would suffice to add an answer to the existing one?

2 hours later…

ACuriousMind

14:01

Hm, I've got a "+20" on the top bar that won't vanish after clicking it - or rather, it disappears and reappear on loading another page. Logging on/off and clearing the cache didn't help. Is this SE's way to annoy me for not logging on in the last 24 hours?

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Qmechanic

16:01

@ACuriousMind : I had the same problem yesterday (and earlier today) after the SE network upgrade. But now it is gone again.

ACuriousMind

16:32

@Qmechanic Great, now your ping keeps reappearing in the top bar too...I guess I'll just ignore that thing for today

Qmechanic

17:28

@ACuriousMind : But the achievement counter when I single-click the achievement icon ||||| on the top bar is not working properly now.

ACuriousMind

Q: Reputation and inbox notification shows up again after refresh

This was asked before too. link. Currently I am facing the issue of appearance of reputation notification in above toolbar. I can see the reputation notification, for every page refresh even after clicking and viewing the notification. current browser: Chrome Version 36.0.1985.143 m

@Qmechanic Seems there's already a bug report on mother meta about this

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Indrajith Indraprastham

20:18

I happened to see a video about [Imagining 10th Dimension][1]. In that (17:03m)
he say that Zero contains every possible values by referring to an author [GEVIN GIORBRAN][2] . It goes like this.

- 1+(-1)=0
- 2+(-2)=0
- 3+(-3)=0
- **∞+(-∞) = 0**
Set A+B=C --> C contain A and B ...
Considering Zero as the set containing -∞ and +∞, it can be the largest possible value.? Any other values is simply the absence of the same negative value.

So 1 is the absence of (-1) from the whole set and so on. When put together will come to the conclusion that 1>2>3... which make no scene.

ACuriousMind

@IndrajithIndraprastham That video is almost two hours long. For conveying information in physics, that is a bad choice. I'm not going to spend a significant fraction of my day on something that is likely nonsense. The contents of the book that are online (and I skimmed) show a suspicious absence of any formal math and no understanding what symmetries and other physics terminology actually mean. It's not a source one should trust.

For what you wrote, "Zero as the set containing $\infty$ and $-\infty$" is pretty vacuous with a definition of $\infty$, that does not depend on the natural numbers with the zero already existing.

Phonon

20:36

@ACuriousMind hi there

ACuriousMind

@Phonon Hi there yourself ;)

Phonon

@ACuriousMind how are you mate? haven't been on for a while, got back today

@ACuriousMind heard about this news yesterday: npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/13/340086786/…

ACuriousMind

@Phonon I'm quite well, thanks for asking. How's it going for you? Kyle mentioned that prize here a few days ago, I think, but I must admit I seem to be not following any news well, I'm always told by other people.

Indrajith Indraprastham

@ACuriousMind if you can seek to 17:03min .. he explains that in 20 sec. I want to know whether there is any physical or cosmological reason supporting his statement. Or is it impossible?

Phonon

@ACuriousMind thanks not bad either, toothache killing me :( just been reading lately.

@ACuriousMind got to read about her work a bit? sounds like a mathematical work well in the core of GR and QFT, offering a better understanding of the symmetry of curved surfaces, very interesting!

ACuriousMind

20:51

@Phonon Haven't read anything more substantial than what you've written there, unfortunately. It sounds as though it would interest me though, I'll probably get around to it sooner or later

@IndrajithIndraprastham It's nonsense. The sum taken is not a convergent series, and one would need to take some kind of regularization, as discussed in this Wiki article on the sum of all natural numbers And "largest" is an (unfulfilled) relation defined on the natural numbers, it is not subject to change just because we write down a non-sensical sum.

Phonon

@ACuriousMind alrighty, haha I must admit I kinda look forward to learn more about it from you once you get around to looking into it yourself, this is way off my field unfortunately.

ACuriousMind

@Phonon It's not like I breathe such things either, and if it is fields-medal level, it'll probably take me even a bit to see if I could understand that in a reasonable amount of time :)

Phonon

@ACuriousMind haha yeah of course, fair enough :)

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