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Paul Burke wrote:
Provided their mathematics is more advanced, of course.
In comparison to those in the future we certainly are ignorant peasants.Kevin Aylward wrote:
Maths didn't really get started until the 16 to 18 hundreds. Certainly
no one knew how to handle infinites correctly until then. Look up
definitions of limits. Even the idea of a static universe by Newton
was flawed because he/they didn't know how to correctly account for
the "infinite" number of stars.
So, yeah they were ignorant peasants.
By those standards, we are ignorant peasants now, since the maths of the
future (assuming sentient beings survive) will inevitably make ours look
primitive.
Provided their mathematics is more advanced, of course.