[seqfan] Re: constants of nature in the OEIS
Brad Klee
bradklee at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 10:11:59 CEST 2017
Hi Seqfans,
I'm not sure that the phrase "trying to guess constants in nature"
adequately captures the efforts of science. In recent history, it's been
difficult to navigate the antagonism between pure math and experimental
science, even for the most capable. Here is another article of relevance to
OEIS:
http://www.ams.org/notices/201306/rnoti-p686.pdf
It mentions the Bell polynomials ( http://oeis.org/A263633 ), Millikan (
cf. http://oeis.org/A081823 ), and the central focus is Bell's relationship
with H.P. Robertson. Einstein also shows up tangentially, as in:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/
articles/2016-02-12/the-man-who-said-no-to-einstein
Now on the OEIS, it's almost possible for the public to find simple
solutions from general relativity, written in terms of the Bell polynomials.
Sequences regarding metrology fall more toward experiment. Sadly, the entry
for A081823 doesn't have any historical information, despite a century of
measurement, from six-sigma inaccuracy to high precision. Nor do we find
cross-references to A081801, A081815, A248507, A248510.
Thanks,
Brad
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Alonso Del Arte <alonso.delarte at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I agree, it is outside the scope of the OEIS. And not to get into a silly
> slippery slope argument, but I don't like the idea of all the deadwood that
> would be created trying to guess constants in nature.
>
> With the dead sequences that are already in the OEIS, at least we can
> usually say that Ax is an erroneous version of Ay. But with constants in
> nature we'd say Ax is an erroneous version of Ay buy Ay might later turn
> out to be itself erroneous?
>
> Al
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:29 AM, Joerg Arndt <arndt at jjj.de> wrote:
>
> > * Brad Klee <bradklee at gmail.com> [Jun 25. 2017 08:46]:
> > > Hi Andrey,
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > One possibility is to set a limit at the usual three standard
> deviations,
> > > and mark a sequence dead when three sigma ranges do not intersect. If
> > OEIS
> > > put some time into this and expanded coverage, in the future it may be
> > > possible to generate a plot such as above just from the version control
> > > data.
> >
> > This is outside the scope of the OEIS.
> >
> > About
> > > If OEIS put some time into this...
> > Who?
> >
> > Best regards, Joerg
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Brad
> > >
> > > [...]
> >
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