Besides, that's the whole point of forcing (and why we sometimes use atomic forcing to choose an object that already exists, rather than adding a new one). You just give a generic name to something, and then you force it to exist. You don't need to choose anything from anywhere.
Forcing is witchcraft. Black magic, if you prefer. It conjures stuff out of thin air, even if the stuff already exists.
Nothing is everything. They share the same boundary.
@AsafKaragila There's actually an interesting point here, I think not fully appreciated, namely that the definitions "nothing" and "everything" are the only pair of open and closed sets whose complement has exactly the same boundary.
@MartinSleziak It's better to have candidates from Earth. I think that communication limitations might be a bit of a problem if the candidates lives off-planet and require the respond in more-or-less real time.
@DanielFischer Yeah, I mean, if someone is from a region close enough to a massive object, it puts the whole notion of "time" into perspective anyway...
I voted for two candidates but don't really care to vote for a third. I'm just checking to verify that my votes are still tallied; that is, I don't need to vote for a third. Correct?
@AsafKaragila Didn't you see all the buzz on the main meta.se site? Future elections on SE will require mod candidates to submit a videotape of their best dance moves. You lucked out!!
@AsafKaragila I think the intent is to draw more attention to SE site elections, and to lighten up the election process with the laughter of users watching "dance moves" from the candidates, right, @Shog9 ?
@AsafKaragila What's your lat and longitude? I'll send my drone! (@SimplyBeautifulArt has provided me with tasty morsels via my drone, many times.) So, I've added another condition in addition to "showing us your best dance moves": feeding us your culinary mastery! (@SimplyBeautifulArt is the only candidate thus far who has provided me with take-out orders!) ;-)
@JyrkiLahtonen I think your safe in thinking that! (I haven't recently checked the Mathematician's Handbook, but I believe that one is not penalized if, on the side, or alongside full-fledged mathematics, one dabbles in or explores related disciplines.)
@TobiasKildetoft Maybe. But Parmesan is more of "top cheese", less of a stuffing cheese, and mozzarella is something that I am somewhat ambivalent about using it for non-pizza stuff (maybe also because it has too many forms, wet and soft, dry and hard)
@JyrkiLahtonen One of the logicians I know is doing something between model theory and set theory. In set theory conferences, he's a model theorist; in model theory conferences he's a set theorist.
@RobertFrost Did you later teach them that Santa isn't real, and Rudolph's nose is red because he killed and ate the other reindeer, and is now facing the death penalty?
Speaking of Rudolph's red nose, I feel that it is necessary to point out that while flying an aircraft (such as a sleigh) through low-visibility conditions, a bright light won't actually help.
But if Santa knew that the weather in the area surrounding the North Pole was acceptable, perhaps his best bet would have been to take off and maintain a heading and altitude until reaching conditions of better visibility.
@Tanner Don't they have this rule that on a commercial flight you must always be within 180 minutes of an airport? Wonder how Santa manages, assuming he takes off at the North Pole?
@JyrkiLahtonen I think that if you calculate the speed in which Santa is delivering gifts, you will find that he is 180 minutes away from all airports.
@amWhy Black olives. Great! When I lived in the US I learned to love them on pizza. Unfortunately, in these parts if I ask for black olives as a pizza topping, the chef won't slice them.
Mathematics's 7 moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!
Please join me in tha...
@AsafKaragila, @AloizioMacedo : It seems you still need to pass a rather strenuous moderator initiation rite of passage... Isn't that right, @DanielFischer, @quid, @JyrkiLahtonen ??? ;-)
@MikeMiller You're not weird. You're welcome here too! :P
I hope the two newly elected A's know they must adhere to respecting, first and foremost, all regular users whose usernames start with the letter "a". I'm just sayin' .... !
@quid Oh, no, no ... Okay... I'll allow all mods with a Q or A as the first letter in their usernames, to especially acknowledge and honor regular users whose usernames begin with q or a or Q or A!!
Although, this also holds for moderators whose usernames begin with "D", or "d", or "M", or "r", and if I'm missing anyone... then I'll simply explain I'm tired!
Mathematics's 7 moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!
Please join me in tha...
