psychoceramics: Plutonium Spells It Out

[Peter Hipwell <petehip @ cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

[A "waterproof and airproof" argument]

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From: Archimedes.Plutonium @ dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.plutonium,sci.math,sci.logic,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Archimedes is right!
Date: 19 Feb 1996 23:10:37 GMT
Organization: PLutonium College

In article <s--@s--.tiac.net>
l--@a--.com (Lloyd Zusman) writes:

> On 17 Feb 1996 04:47:19 GMT, Archimedes Plutonium <Archimedes.P--@d--.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > [ ... ]
> >
> >   The Atomic Theory is stated in Feynman Lectures on Physics, the first
> > chapter in volume 1.  The Atomic Theory says that all things are made
> > up of atoms.  All, all, all things. That logically means that the
> > entirety itself, the whole, everything is an atom itself. All is all.
> > And the Universe is everthing. All is everything. Everything is an
> > atom.
> 
> I know that I am at the math level of a high school math teacher, and
> I must respectfully differ with you, Mr. Plutonium.  You state above
> that "The Atomic Theory says that all things are made up of atoms."
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> The Atomic Theory does *NOT* state that "all things *ARE* atoms."
> 
> To say that "all things *ARE MADE UP OF* atoms" logically means that the
> entirety itself, the whole, everything *IS MADE UP OF* atoms.
> 
> The phrase *IS MADE UP OF ATOMS* is not equivalent in meaning to the
> phrase *IS AN ATOM*.
> 
> Please take no offense, for none is intended: it has been my
> understanding that you hold to the theory of the Plutonium Atom
> Totality for stronger reasons than simply a belief that the phrase "IS
> MADE UP OF" is equivalent in meaning to the word "IS".

  I take no offense. It is good to spend a lot and a lot of time on
this perhaps most important of all logic arguments. If anyone had ever
done this argument before 1990, then they may have discovered the One
Atom Everything.

  I enjoy going through this waterproof and airproof argument.

  The key word, key quantifier is All. I cannot stress that word
enough.

(1) Atomic Fact or Atomic Hypothesis: All things are made up of atoms. 
(2) Implies, one thing is either one atom or a multitude of atoms
(3) Universe is one-verse, a one structure
(4) One structure is one entity. For we cannot deny that the universe
is a something, an entity, and not a nothing.
(5) Since by (1), if all things are made up of atoms, then the universe
itself as one entity must be one atom. 

  Summary: If you accept as true a statement that "All things are made
up of atoms", then the "All" by itself must be one atom. Of course, you
may insist in a multiverse instead of a universe. And then in the
argument above the Multiverse is a number of Atom Totalities. But that
is ad hoc and unneccessary and unwarranted assumptions and reasoning.
We can be certain of a universe, but we have no evidence in support of
a multiverse. Unless we ever obtain science data in support of a
multiverse, we must stick to the ground floor of known observable
evidence of a universe. Simplicity is the best-- do not paint legs on a
snake.