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- From: abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA. V.R.PRATT's LATEST COMMENT ON FTA
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:31:01 GMT
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- 11-22-92
- Dear Mr. Pratt:
-
- In your 11-20-92 posting you correctly quoted my 11-11-92 abridged
- proof. Here are your words:
-
- >For the record here's Abian's proof (that 1+z+z^2 has a zero) again.
-
- >> PROOF. Assume on the contrary, and without loss of generality, let
- >> 1 + z + z^2 have no root, i.e., 1 + z + z^2 never vanishes.
- >>Long divide 1 by 1+z+z^2 in two ways - in descending and ascending
- >>powers of z, i.e.,
- >>
- >> 1/ (1+z+z^2) = 1 - z + z^3 - z^4 + z^6 - ...
- >>
- >> 1/ (z^2+z+1) = 1/(z^2) - 1/(z^3) + 1/(z^5) - 1/(z^6) + ...
- >>
- >>The two expressions on the right side of = must be identical. But
- >>they are not. Contradiction. Hence our assumption is false and the
- >>Theorem is proved.
-
- You notice that I said "The two expressions on the right side
- of = must be IDENTICAL" (by virtue of the well known uniqueness
- of the expansion of Analytic Functions). The reason that in the
- unabridged version I mentioned the "singularity" -because people
- would have then asked "Why they should be identical" - in fact someone
- asked !
- So I used both versions, one in the abridged form the other in the unab-
- ridged form.
- How come you did not note my word "IDENTICAL" on 11-11-92 ?
-
- Alexander ABIAN
-
-
- --
- The tendency of maintaining the status-quo, Reaction to provocation and
- The tendency of maintaining again a status-quo.
- TIME HAS INERTIA and some energy is lost to move Time forward
- E = mcc (Einstein) must be replaced by E = m(0) exp(-At) (Abian)
-