What Is With The Upswing In Flying Saucer Related News? Psyop or real?
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I agree anything truly alien would likely be difficult to work with, but I doubt the numbering system would be the main sticking point. Humans are already very familiar/proficient in working with non base 10 stuff like binary, and hexadecimal
That's one part of the problem, it's a single example that most people never consider.
It's not just the numbering system that's the problem. The problem is that our math isn't the same. Math isn't just "math". Modern mathematics is based on Number Theory and, mostly, Cartesian systems. It is the modern iteration of mathematics. Very few people, even math majors, could work with "math" if it were based off of Euclidian Mathematics, or ancient Greek geometry. This is because those mathematical systems were abandoned, because we reached the end-point of those logical systems given their presuppositions and axioms.
Alien mathematics would be built off entirely different presuppositions, and have a totally different history. We'd have to find a way to translate all of their mathematical procedures, starting with gravitational constants (the only thing we could probably have any chance of working off of.
You're talking out your ass. You're saying a modern mathematician would struggle with proofs because "modern math" is arithmetic. Modern math is wholly comprised of proofs. Calculation is largely a tool of engineering.
Whatever dude, I didn't say any of those things.