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No fault auto insurance, also known as Personal Injury Protection (PIP) and first-party benefits, guarantees that your insurance company will pay for damages no matter who is at fault. The benefit of no fault insurance is that it ensures low insurance costs and reduces the time spent processing claims.
Not all states offer no fault insurance and not all states that do offer it offer the same liability coverage options. The main differences include: mandatory vs. optional no fault insurance (first-party benefits), restrictions on lawsuits and thresholds for lawsuits.
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States that are "true" no fault states require personal injury protection. You cannot opt out of your first-party benefits. This means that your insurance company will pay for your insurance claims, regardless of who is at fault in the accident. These plans also restrict lawsuits, so that a claim has to meet certain conditions before a party can sue for damages due to injury and pain and suffering.
In "add-on" no fault states, drivers are compensated by their own insurance company for PIP, but there are no restrictions on lawsuits. The "add-on" comes into play because first-party benefits have been added to the traditional tort liability policy. Under traditional tort liability, a policyholder at fault in a car crash may be sued by the other driver for pain and suffering and any other out-of-pocket expenses (such as medical) caused by the accident.
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These thresholds are meant to cut down on frivolous lawsuits. It also helps to lower the cost of auto insurance overall by removing small claims from the court system.
Table of State Auto Insurance Laws (Liability Coverage)
First-Party Benefits (PIP) | Law Suit Restrictions | Lawsuit Threshholds |
"True" No Fault States | Mandatory | Optional | Yes | No | Monetary | Verbal |
Florida | x | x | x | |||
Hawaii | x | x | x | |||
Kansas | x | x | x | |||
Massachusetts | x | x | x | |||
Michigan | x | x | x | |||
Minnesota | x | x | x | |||
New York | x | x | x | |||
North Dakota | x | x | x | |||
Puerto Rico | x | x | x | |||
Utah | x | x | x | |||
"Choice" States | ||||||
Kentucky | x | x | x | x | ||
New Jersey | x | x | x | x | ||
Pennsylvania | x | x | x | x | ||
"Add-on" States | ||||||
Arkansas | x | x | ||||
Delaware | x | x | ||||
Maryland | x | x | ||||
New Hampshire | x | x | ||||
Oregon | x | x | ||||
South Dakota | x | x | ||||
Texas | x | x | ||||
Virginia | x | x | ||||
Washington | x | x | ||||
Wisconsin | x | x |
*DC - The District of Columbia is neither no fault nor add-on. Drivers are initially offered the option of either type of coverage, but when an accident occurs, a driver who initially chose no fault has 60 days to decide whether to receive the no fault benefits or file a claim against the other party.
Traditional Tort Liability States (No restrictions on lawsuits)
New Mexico
North Carolina
Rhode Island
South Carolina
West Virginia
Source: American Insurance Association
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He's saying /ɪmi:ʤətli:/ IMO.
Hi Everyone,
Standard pronunciation of "Immediately" I can find it in dictionaries, but sometimes I hear people would pronounce as 'Immedrly', 'diate' would be pronounced like a 'dr'....like a 'J' sound....The following Audio Clip I recorded from BBC, the guy pronounced as 'Immedrly'...'J' sound.....anyone can tell me if it only happens in British English, how about American English? Please advise.
small one but not the big one......(immediately) just.....situation..
He's saying /ɪmi:ʤətli:/ IMO.
My PC can't handle the link, but that makes sense. I had no idea what Williamyh's "r" might mean. If the announcer were on his/her best behaviour s/he'd probably say /ɪmi:di:ətli:/ (5 syllables); in fluent speech this becomes /ɪmi:djətli:/ and then /ɪmi:ʤətli:/ . The process is called 'palatalization', and happens a lot in the development of language.
Nerd alert: ignore the following unless you're a linguistics freak.
[Come to think of it, I've just thought of an analogy for the "r" that Williamyh reported - the Portuguese praia (palatalized from an initial Latin PL - preserved in the Spanish playa {the palatalization took a different route with the Latin PLENU[M] - Pg cheio, Sp lleno} ). See more here: Palatalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .
I did warn you. ]
Afterthought. Something you may see (in print) is a reference to this tendency - in the case of the word "media", spelt, jokingly, "meejer". 'The [sometimes "Ve" - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fronting] meejer' are 'newspapers' like the Daily Star/Sun/News of the World or 'magazines' such as Heat, OK, or Hello, or it's used adjectivally to express contempt: 'Silvio Berlusconi is a meejer tycoon'.
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Yes, I wanted to express the guy from BBC pronounced "ɪmi:ʤətli:", I was wondering if it would happen in American English?


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The strange affliction mentioned in the title is an obsession with numbers. Russell portrays Bruckner as something like an obsessive compulsive. The movie begins with Bruckner arriving at a country home where a man and a woman in a nurse's uniform await him. He has counted the spokes and the rotations of the wheel and tells his new acquaintances. He counts the letters in their names when they introduce themselves. He is then dunked repeatedly in an ice bath. Bruckner has been sent to receive mental health treatment without his consent, but is more upset that that his wards chose to dunk him four times. It's not a good number.
And so the movie goes, comprised of vignettes punctuated by treatment, which mostly seems to be lots of ice baths and warm broth fed to him by pretty nurse Grete. Anton's days seem to be spent walking outdoors, communing with nature and counting various parts of it, although on an early sojourn his caretakers bring him to confession, where the priest is clearly nonplussed by Bruckner's whole person, particularly his funny definition of the term "self-abuse" (Bruckner means that he was abusing himself by reading the music to one of his critically reviled symphonies; by the same words the priest intends something rather different). The priest pronounces his penance: to play Bach's Fugue in D Minor. Anton walks out of the confessional, to the church organ, and does exactly that.
Still, I do not think I've ever read that Bruckner was hospitalized for mental illness, although I confess that I've only read a short biography many years ago. Accept the fiction. Russell is making a film about the character of Bruckner the musician. The strange affliction, as regimented and earthly as anything can be, finally breaks down against the wonder of infinity, the nearly dissonant, polyphonic nature of God's creation as represented by the millions of stars or the hairs on a woman's body. These things cannot be quantifiably counted, and to even attempt would cheapen them. Bruckner's affliction stands in contrast to that.
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner was shot on a low budget for British television and so is both brief and less visually bizarre than the other Ken Russell films I had watched. Russell has a knack for evocative shooting, apparently finding locations around the English countryside in which to film, although the interior sets are rather sparse in decoration and furnishings. It is still a very handsome television movie in spite of its origin, and the casting is wonderful. In an interview that played before the movie, Russell claimed that the Anton Bruckner didn't look like a composer and so nobody took him seriously like Wagner; Bruckner looked like a farmer. One would probably believe so given Peter Mackriel's performance. And Catherine Nielson as Grete is just terribly winsome. A natural beauty.
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With over 40 Rap and Hip Hop tracks, Def Jam Rapstar is the ultimate non-mainstream music "karaoke" game for the XBox 360 that not only contains an impressive track listing but has a few inspiring non "Singstar" tricks up its sleeves. Although it has a similar premise to other music games, Def Jam Rapstar takes your performances to the next level, provided you have a camera with the ability to record your singing/performances and even upload them to the Def Jam Rapstar community for others to see you. Before you buy the game, I strongly suggest you check out some of these home-made music videos because by Snoop Doggy... there are some classics!
Unlike Singstar and other music games, Def Jam Rapstar monitors your singing a little differently. Although it monitors your timing and pitch, for rap songs, it monitors how you say the words which is highlighted by a bouncing ball. It does take a little time getting use to but at the end of the day, it works quite well. Needless to say, some of the tracks are quite difficult to master due to the almost tongue twister inspired lyrics. Nonetheless it can be a singing workout at times!
By singing correctly with the lyrics displayed on screen, you are awarded points and if you continue doing well, there is even a multiplier that boosts your score. Very cool. There is even a career mode which is great for practicing and my favourite, the Freestyle mode that allow you to create your own "music" masterpieces and once again, check out the online community.
Featuring a variety of gameplay modes from single to two player and party, Def Jam Rapstar has a mode for almost every occasion. Of course most music games come into their own with other people around. The two-player mode allows you to sing as either a duet or a battle which is actually quite fun, especially battle which is almost like a sing off. Party is another entertaining mode for a night in with your friends and a few beers as you rap and hip hop to your hearts content.
As mentioned, the game also records your performance, provided you have an XBox Live Vision camera and once your song is finished, you can watch the video and decide whether you would like this uploaded. You can even do some basic special effects as well that almost acts like a video editing software package. It should be noted that you can only post up to 30 seconds of your music video which is understandably, given the size of the video.
However the star of this game are the songs that include favourites such as the Beastie Boys, Lil Kim, Outkast and Rob Base. The audio quality is perfect and sounds phenomenal through a surround sound setup. Then you have the graphics which are equally as impressive and boasts a relatively easy to use interface and menu system, especially when your editing the effects. Definitely a prerequisite to have a FULL HD TV.
Def Jam Rapster Track Listing
2 Pac
I Get Around
50 Cent
I Get Money
Beastie Boys
Brass Monkey
Big Pun
Still Not a Player
Biz Markie
Just a Friend
Busta Rhymes
Put Your Hands
DJ Khaled
We Takin Over
Ruff Ryders Anthem
Dr. Dre
Nuthin But a G Thang
Best I Ever Had
Ice Cube
Today Was a Good Day
Ja Rule ft. Ashanti
Always On Time
Jim Jones
We Fly High
Kanye West
Lil Jon
Get Low
Lil Kim
Crush On You
Lil Wayne
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Mama Said Knock You Out
Stand Up
Method Man & Redman
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Hate Me Now
Hot In Herre
Notorious B.I.G.
Big Poppa
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Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Public Enemy
Fight the Power
Can't Truss It
Puff Daddy / P. Diddy
All About the Benjamins
Rob Base
It Takes Two
Run D.M.C.
Run's House
Salt n Pepa
Push It
Slick Rick
Children's Story
Snoop Dogg
Gin & Juice
Soulja Boy
Turn My Swag On
Live Your Life
Terror Squad feat. Fat Joe & Remy Martin
Lean Back
Tribe Called Quest
Slow Jamz
Wu Tang
Young Jeezy
Put On
Young Joc
Its Goin' Down
In conclusion, Def Jam Rapstar is a fun game and if you are into rap and hip hop, than this is a must have karaoke game. It's great that the developers have jumped on the social media bandwagon because it does create a solid community behind the game. Even if you don't want to use this online, it's still a great music game for the XBox 360 thanks to its tracklisting and sturdy gameplay. This is not your stock standard Singstar game but something left out of centre!
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Everyone focuses on neurasthenic high school juniors desperate to get into good colleges, but let's shift for a moment to the professors awaiting them.
Today's New York Times features exactly the sort of student I want to see in my classrooms at George Washington University. He's independent, odd, intellectually curious, and living a somewhat difficult life. I'm thrilled that our admissions committee saw what there was to see in him.
June 3, 2007 - 6:23pm
How stupid are American university students, professors, and sports boosters willing to be?
Very, Selena Roberts points out in today's New York Times. They'll spend all their money on coaches who'll stay a few months and then get massive buyouts. They'll lie there while sports directors send ticket prices up the wazoo.
May 31, 2007 - 6:37pm
When a high-profile, well-compensated professor who's also his university's assistant vice president of government relations is convicted of a serious crime, you know he'll find the right words to convey his regret, the enormity of the event, etc.There it is, up there, in my headline.I mentioned in my last post the AP article summarizing the just-ended academic year as having been primarily about theft and greed and dishonesty. Here's a sample story.
May 29, 2007 - 2:41pm
It's the end of the academic year, and so far the Associated Press and The Washington Post have featured articles offering broad generalizations about what just happened in higher ed. For the AP writer, the year on campus has been all about dishonesty: we've had nine months of plagiarism, conflict of interest, and similar modes of malfeasance at our colleges and universities. The Washington Post, noting some local static involving university presidents, says it's above all been the year of the burnt-out chief executive officer.
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Henry P. Karsen, 70, of Lecanto, Fla., passed away March 9, 2013, at his home under the care of his family and Hospice of Citrus County after a long battle with cancer.
A native of northern New Jersey, he was a member of the first graduating class of DePaul Catholic High School where he starred in football, basketball and baseball. After graduating from Tampa U he taught physical education, health and driver's education in New Jersey at Pequannock and Clifton High Schools. He coached many sports, but wrestling was his passion. He is a member of the Morris County Coaches Hall of Fame (NJ) and the DePaul Catholic Athletic Hall of Fame. He was a pioneer in the gym business, later opening North Jersey Nautilus and Wrestling Plus. He moved to Florida in 1997 where he was active in the Native Plant Society, Manatee Watch and Democratic Club. He also coached wrestling at Lecanto High School.
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This is the second part in the Disciples Series from Strategy First. It continues the plot of Disciples - Sacred Lands, ten years after the defeat of the undead hordes.Although the game may look very similar to the more known Heroes of Might and Magic series due to its turn based game style and its 2D Graphics, Disciples 2 offers some very fine and unique features to make it a game worth looking at.
The game plays at a fixed resolution of 800x600, just like HOMM3. You'll either have the chance to play one of the single scenarios, play the campaign or join a multiplayer-game. A scenario editor is also included in the game package in order to create missions on your own.
The core part of the game is the very well written campaign. Here, the story of Disciples II is told. You'll have to play each faction of the game: The Human Empire, The Mountain Clans, The Undead Hordes and Legion of the Damned. Just like in Blizzard's Starcraft, the story is linked together in the four parts of the campaign - you don't know what happens in the end unless you've played all races.
The game not only focuses on the development of your heroes but also on your other characters. You don't send forth huge armies like in other games of the genre, you control parties similar to typical role-playing games. Each member of your party has special abilities you'll have to use with care in order to remain successful in the game.
Alternate Titles
- "圣战群英传II:黑暗预言" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
- "Disciples II: Канун Рагнарека" -- Russian title
- "Disciples II: Mroczne Proroctwo" -- Polish Title
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Withingames | Feb 14, 2002 | 5 out of 5 | 100 |
ActionTrip | Feb 22, 2002 | 90 out of 100 | 90 |
Gamers' Temple, The | Feb 07, 2002 | 88 out of 100 | 88 |
GameSpy | Jan 30, 2002 | 87 out of 100 | 87 |
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PC Zone Benelux | Mar, 2002 | 72 out of 100 | 72 |
allaboutgames.co.uk | Oct 16, 2002 | 7 out of 10 | 70 |
PC Games (Germany) | Feb, 2002 | 70 out of 100 | 70 |
JeuxVideoPC.com | Dec 14, 2004 | 11 out of 20 | 55 |
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Center for Democratic Deliberation to host Deliberation Nation events2/23/15Deliberation Nation, a week-long series of deliberative discussions on topics pertaining to campus life, kicks off on Feb. 24 with multiple events throughout the week.
Deliberative democracy center continues leadership in teaching, scholarship9/8/14As the fall midterm elections approach, Penn State's Center for Democratic Deliberation (CDD) continues to develop new knowledge and training in rhetoric, debate, and deliberation for students, educators, and citizens through its initiatives in research, teaching, and outreach. Since its founding in 2006, the CDD has had a significant impact on undergraduate and graduate education at Penn State, launching innovative changes in the university's speaking and writing courses. For example, Rhetoric and Civic Life, a course for honors students and aspiring Paterno Fellows, offers comprehensive training in speaking, writing, visual, and digital communications skills. "As Penn State undergoes a revision of its General Education curriculum, the CDD serves as an important resource for developing new approaches to courses that teach citizenship skills," said Dr. J. Michael Hogan, CDD Director and Liberal Arts Research Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences.
Participatory Budgeting Project selected for Brown Democracy Medal4/23/14A national organization that empowers citizens to exert greater control over public spending was selected as the first recipient of the Brown Democracy Medal, an award that will be presented annually by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy in Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts. The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is a nonprofit organization that promotes "participatory budgeting," an inclusive process that empowers community members to make informed decisions about public spending. More than 30,000 people in communities across the United States have participated in programs that PBP helped spark over the last five years.
Meira Levinson to deliver talk on the ethics of educational injustice4/4/14The Penn State Center for Democratic Deliberation (CDD) announced that the 22nd annual Kenneth Burke Lecture in Rhetoric will feature Meira Levinson, associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of the award-winning book "No Citizen Left Behind" (2012). Her talk, "Teaching as Moral Injury: The Ethics of Educational Injustice," will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in Foster Auditorium in the Paterno Library.
Finalists to compete in Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest 4/11/13Penn State's Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and The Center for Democratic Deliberation are sponsoring the final round of the semi-annual Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 22, in 110 Business Building on the University Park campus. The event is free to the public. Six of the top speakers from this semester's CAS 100A course "Effective Speech" will speak on issues of civic importance for a public audience and panel of esteemed judges.
Burke Lecture set for April 184/9/13The 21st annual Kenneth Burke Lecture in Rhetoric will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in 112 Kern Building.
Symposium, exhibit examine legacy of labor and civil rights activist1/30/13The life and work of prominent labor and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez will be the focus of a Feb. 14 symposium at Penn State and a photography exhibit at the Art Alley of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus. The events are co-sponsored by Penn State's Center for Democratic Deliberation and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and are free to the public.
NEH Challenge Grant to support deliberative democracy programs1/24/13The Center for Democratic Deliberation (CDD) at Penn State has been awarded a $334,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant to continue and expand its successful initiatives in education, research and public outreach and to become a national leader in the field of deliberative democracy in the 21st century. The College of the Liberal Arts and The Center for Democratic Deliberation will pursue philanthropic efforts to raise matching funds of $1 million to extend the work and influence of the Center in civic education and rhetorical scholarship and outreach nationally and internationally. The CDD was founded in 2006 as a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary center for research, teaching and outreach on issues of civic engagement and democratic deliberation.
Students to compete in public speaking contest12/4/12Six of the top students from the course, Communication Arts and Sciences 100A: Effective Speech, in fall semester will speak on issues of civic importance for a public audience and panel of judges at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10, in Business 110, on Penn State's University Park campus. The event is open to the public and will feature speakers who are competing in the final round of the semi-annual Civic Engagement Public Speaking Contest, organized by the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences and the Center for Democratic Deliberation.
Liberal Arts sponsors marathon reading of classic novel 'Catch 22'9/7/12"Catch-22" is a classic American satirical novel on the insanity of war, a book which had its early roots at Penn State. The College of the Liberal Arts is organizing a marathon 24-hour reading of the novel, beginning on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 1 p.m., on the lawn in front of Pattee and Paterno Libraries. The event is open to the public. Students, faculty, staff and alumni will read the novel aloud throughout Thursday and conclude Friday afternoon, Sept. 14. "This event will help us bring intellectual life more visibly into the public space of the university, and will showcase the power of ideas, discussion and learning," said Eric Hayot, professor of comparative literature and Asian studies, and an event organizer. "Penn State academics have never been stronger, and we want to share that excellence with the public and our communities."
To the Point: Professor discusses Pennsylvania's civic engagement4/6/12Despite Pennsylvania's celebrated role as the birthplace of American democracy, the Commonwealth ranked next-to-last among U.S. states in the percentage of residents who said they "talked frequently about politics," in the recently published 2011 Pennsylvania Civic Health Index. Its authors, J. Michael Hogan and Mark Hlavacik of Penn State's Center for Democratic Deliberation, examined a number of measures of social connectedness, community engagement and political deliberation and action, based on data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Nationally renowned campaign expert to speak April 24 at Penn State4/3/12Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a nationally renowned campaign expert and Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a talk titled "Patterns of Deception in the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Campaigns: How Language Does Our Thinking For Us," at 7 p.m. on April 24 in Room 112 of the Kern Building on the University Park campus. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is being presented as part of the annual Kenneth Burke Lecture in Rhetoric. The talk is sponsored by the Penn State Center for Democratic Deliberation.
Deliberation or Disruption?10/26/09At the second Research Unplugged of the fall season, J. Michael Hogan, professor of Rhetoric and Co-Director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State, engaged the audience in a discussion about the role of the media in portraying the political process.
Debate watches take place on campus10/1/08Penn State's Center for Democratic Deliberation, along with Democracy Matters and the Liberal Arts Undergraduate Council, will host two Debate Watches at 9 p.m. Oct. 7 and again at 9 p.m. Oct. 15 in 102 Thomas Building on the University Park campus. These events will bring together Penn State students and faculty to watch and discuss the presidential debates between candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. All participants will have the opportunity to take part in a voluntary pre- and post-debate survey, administered by the Center for Democratic Deliberation. Participants also can sign up to participate in an Internet survey on the 2008 election and have a chance to win an iTunes gift card. Students can take part in a post-debate focus group discussion where they will receive pizza and a gift certificate for ice cream at the Berkey Creamery.


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Hi guys, In my blog www.letstalkphysics.com I present an argument (pretty simple) that mathematics must be the foundation of any possible universe (as it certainly seems to be in ours). I wrote it because it seems that so many people, both mathematicians and physicists, not to mention laypeople, seem to think that it is a curious accident that our universe runs on math. I doubt it, but I am curious what some of the math aficionados here think!
I think a fallacy in your argument is that the universe must have some set of rules. Why must this be so ? Why can't the universe just be a big set of rather arbitrary happenings (events), say, determined by the fancy will of some or other deity ? What excludes "magic" a priori ? Why can't the universe just be a dream ?
Note that you say "rather arbitrary", instead of "arbitrary". There is a big difference between "rather" arbitrary, which implies rules, and completely arbitrary, which is the case with no rules. If you put yourself in the position of the creator of a universe, and attempt to further specify a set of "rather arbitrary" constraints, you will quickly find that it is impossible except by being completely precise (or at least, precisely probabilistic, as in quantum mechanics). And as for a "supernatural deity", it is the same thing. If such a being exists, it just means that our universe contains things we haven't seen yet. It doesn't change the need for rules, since without some constraints the deity could not even influence its own actions. How could it, since with no rules there can be no connection between the past and the present? Indeed, this may be a better way to make my argument (and it is also David Hume's argument). The present has to be constrained by the past, otherwise there can be no coherent sequence of events and no real universe. However, there is no middle ground between complete, mathematical constraints, and no constraints at all. It is simply impossible to write down any kind of "partial" constraints like the "rather arbitrary" rules you suggest above. The closest you can come is exact probabilities, as in quantum mech.
I think you can argue that even though completely chaotic universes might exist, with no physical laws ordering events within them, these would be inconsistent with the existence of life within them. The reason that "our universe runs on math" would therefore seem to be anthropic in nature. Of course this begs the question about whether mathematics exists as some Platonic ideal, discovered by mathematicians, or whether it is a human construct. Garth
It does not run on math; it runs on a few behaviours (such as electrons like to orbit protons and atoms like to absorb and emit photons) which, when repeated countless times, result in larger, emergent behaviours. Because the small behaviours and the large behaviours are so consistent across untold light years, we can use numbers to represent them. i.e. the universe is entirely dervied from simple processes, and these processes are predictable ( = math ).
It's difficult for me at least to picture the concept of "no physical laws". For example, is there a space with fixed dimension in which things happen? That is a law... Can truly any event happen, e.g. universe turns into a potato, then Bart Simpson, then War and Peace wrapped on a torus? If not, then something is constraining the events, and those constraints are law of physics. What I claim is that by the time you are done specifying what events can occur and which cannot, you will have to define them in terms of mathematical constructs, for the simple reason that nothing else really can be defined.
The source of these regular behaviors is their underlying mathematical basis. Indeed, it is not even possible to define an atom or a proton on its own (consider all the intermediate states of partially-destroyed atoms and protons). Only the underlying constituents, electrons and quarks and photons, have a definition, because they are fundamental mathematical objects within quantum field theory.
No. You've got it backwards. The behaviours are due to the underlying physics of the objects. They operated just fine before humans came along and quantified them with mathematics.
In my view, mathematics is just a way of describing quantities and relationships. OP should not confuse the map with the territory.
Can you express this "underlying physics" in some form other than mathematical? I would be interested to see it...and so would the Nobel Prize committee :-)
This sentence repeated over and over again... Georges Perec, one of my favorite author, wrote a lot among other things on this subject. One can argue how the territory is not real until you have a map. One can argue about a 1 to 1 scale map. One can argue about a map, the knowledge of part of it allowing you necessarilly to be able to extend it, by pure thought, without end, and being able to check that it always matches with the territory... which one is the most real ? Please don't over-simplify. Platonists vs (?) constructivists : as far as I'm concerned, I was disappointed to face the impossibility of a discussion. Most people are convinced either way, and do not care about pure arguments in favor of one or the other way. I myself do not claim to be convinced either way, at least I am much more interested in hearing other people's arguments than trying to prove them wrong.
Certainly*. But even if I couldn't, so what? The math is just the description. The description is merely for the benefit of humans. As before, the universe got along just fine before math came along. * let's see: 1] For thousands of years, describing the underlying physics as the actions of gods or demons worked quite well. Granted, it is no longer sufficient for some of us (though not all of us), but you can't deny that gods and demons did explain why the sun chased the moon across the sky. 2] Aliens could easily describe our universe using a completely different structure. Granted, they wil have their own form of mathematics, but the point is, the language is just the tool for describing the underlying physics, and it doesn't much matter the details of the tool so long as it's complex enough. Hear hear!
By "description" I mean of course a description in terms that you can define. One can define an electron, using mathematics, but good luck defining a god or demon. As for "explanation", that is not the role of science. That is the role of fairy tales.
There is a big assumption here: you're assuming that the Universe behaves rationally. There is no guarantee that the Universe follows the laws that govern the reason of men. The Universe is only describable mathematically if is indeed a model of a logical system; it may not be - we don't know.
Astrophysics provides plenty of evidence that the laws of physics discovered on Earth apply equally well across the observable universe, take as an example the precise pattern of spectral lines that identify specific elements in the spectra of distant stars. These patterns are described mathematically, there is a numerical relationship between the wavelengths of separate lines in the absorption spectrum. These examples provide conclusive evidence that the observable universe behaves rationally. If it didn't it would not be possible to 'do' science at all. Garth
The issue here is that....nobody yet fully understands the universe. And then you say 'it certainly seems to be in OURS'......which means that you're taking just a single example and then you're assuming this single example applies to everything else. Also, it doesn't make sense to say mathematics must be the foundation of any possible universe.....and this is because we don't know what is the origin of the universe.....and therefore we don't know what the foundation of the universe is. And....does maths tell where energy and matter actually came from? It doesn't.
Now, I'm not necessarily a constructivist in regards to mathematics, but have more of a naturalistic / physicalistic view. I think that the quantities and relations mathematics describe is very much real and that mathematics is superior to other 'languages' in its unambiguity and component simplicity, but that the specifics symbols and their semantics is mostly a social construct. Similarily, the term "chair" is a social construct, but chairs are not. I'm not sure my elaboration helped, or if I just repeated what I stated earlier.
In objectivist metaphysics, the uniformity of nature can be seen as the principle of identity (A is A) applied to action over time. Furthermore, if the uniformity of nature does not obtain, there is no reason for you to think that a rational discussion on the uniformity of nature is possible, since valid perception presupposes the uniformity of nature.
You're still confusing the descriptor with the described. By that logic I could claim that all Earthly existence has, at its fundamental, language, since it requires language to describe it. I'm still waiting to hear you address the issue as to how the universe managed for 13.69999999 billion years before mathematics came along.
The language of mathematics describes the mathematical landscape of logical relationships between mathematical objects. These 'objects': geometrical shapes, real numbers, complex numbers, vectors, tensors, scalars etc. are defined by their properties, i.e. what they do, not what they are. The language was invented by humans, the mathematical relationships were there all along. 2 + 2 = 4 was true even when there were no humans to think so. The language of that expression can be translated into other languages such as binary: 10 + 10 = 100 or Roman: II + II = IV but in each case it means the same, a numerical property that first was attached to objects such as: + = but which exists as an abstract concept that can be logicaly and consistently constructed without any reference to objects at all. The mathematics was there all along, it was the language of mathematics that humans have invented. Garth


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A former Kansas University safety on Tuesday was sentenced to serve 18 months probation for three misdemeanor convictions in an October 2007 incident.
A Douglas County jury in March convicted Jerome Kemp of battery, violation of a protective order and obstruction related to breaking down another man's door late at night in northwest Lawrence. Jurors also acquitted Kemp of seven other charges, including five felonies.
Kemp said he learned his lesson from serving more than four months in jail before the trial.
"It opened up my eyes to where I could be if I don't get my life back on track," Kemp said.
Once his bond was reduced, he returned to Wichita, his hometown, where he now works as an apprentice for a construction company. He said he also has sought treatment for anger management.
With the new conviction, Kemp violated his probation in two prior misdemeanor criminal damage cases, but District Judge Peggy Kittel applied the jail time he had already served to those cases.
Kemp was a four-year letter winner at KU who last played in 2006.