• Re: Reality, or /Lost in Math/

    From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.theory,alt.fantasy,alt.magick,alt.magic.history,sci.crypt on Wed Aug 19 05:35:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.crypt

    On 19/08/2026 4:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 12:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 12:44 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 09:37 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/17/2026 05:04 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 17/08/2026 8:43 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:

    Somebody like Maugin has something like the "acoustic wave
    transducer",
    an electronic circuit that makes for solving what would be digital >>>>>> problems more like analog problems.

    Wouldn't that be the /analogue computers of yore/?


    These days they call that a "D-Wave quantum simulator computer",
    about that there are then also many models of computation that
    were about planar circuits, with vias and all, in the "three-
    dimensional
    integrated circuit" or "3-D IC", that make some
    what were fundamentally serial algorithms into general parallel.


    Are you telling me quantum computers don't exist, and it's all /simu- >>>>> lated/ with regular off the shelf hardware?-a Is it all a scam?


    The use of optical junctions and optical traces instead of electronic >>>>>> junctions and electronic traces, offers an entirely different model >>>>>> of propagation, basically for 1-to-many or many-to-1.

    Huh, isn't that the same as the analogue computers of yore, only using >>>>> light instead of electric forces to do the calculations?-a How do they >>>>> move the gauges?



    It's agreeable that a usual model of computation as a calculus
    is limited to an abacus (if a rather large abacus): yet accounts
    like the integral or infinitesimal analysis or Fourier-style analysis >>>>>> or about doubling-measures and quasi-invariant measure theory, these >>>>>> are "super-classical results" then though that a "computer algebra >>>>>> system" can be given the rules to work on them like perfect numbers >>>>>> in their symbolic forms.

    Do you mean computer algebra systems like FriCAS are now sentient, and >>>>> therefore perfect?-a Or do I completely misunderstand your paragraph? >>>>>>
    Then, figuring whether finite, if large, approximations are "close >>>>>> enough" that the differences would be lost, the "negligeable",
    also they're formally "not quite", about what's called "weak
    induction",
    and that the definition of "strong induction" is
    that some super-classical example that's somehow geometric and
    infinitary already exists, ..., there may be many practical and
    successful "polynomial-time approximations to NP-hard problems",
    and in fact there's a great book with that title, yet otherwise
    the "Turing-complete" as the same as "induction-complete" isn't so. >>>>>>

    I thought induction was something we use in basic electricity.-a Some- >>>>> thing about making magnetic fields with electric currents?-a How
    exactly
    does that work?-a Do you know?


    Mathematics is kind of like physics, the popular accounts:
    rife with incompleteness, and inconsistencies, "independence",
    that various successful and practical accounts choose to ignore
    (and others just don't even know, nor, as long as they're "close
    enough", care).
    I have noticed that a lot of mathematicians don't care how the real
    world works, and stick to the math.-a I currently believe Sabine Hoss- >>>>> enfelder (?) wrote a book about it, /Lost in Math/.-a Which is totally >>>>> different from the TV series /Lost in Space/ or /Lost in Time/.

    Now that I think about it, do you think Sabine would be willing to
    starr in her own adaption of /Lost in Math/, set in a scientific
    fictional environment?-a How would the /Math/ even look like?-a Do we >>>>> have a clue what math looks like, if made into science fiction?

    I'm cross posting to alt.fantasy, because I don't offhand know the
    name of the science fiction group.

    Hm. Well, all computers employ sorts of what are called "quantum
    effects", though that's just "the logic the NAND gates" usually enough, >>>> it is though fair to say that most anything that's been called "quantum >>>> computing", with the idea of solving for a superposition of states all >>>> possible solutions at once, is "simulated quantum computing", yes.


    So, all we need to protect ourselves against this /simulated quantum
    computing/, is to have /simulated cryptography/?-a Does the N.S.A. know
    about it?


    The usual idea is that it results one solution then that's alike
    accounts of "simulated annealing", "simulated quantum annealing",
    and so on, what are numerical methods and approximations with their
    error terms.

    Then, "induction" was about "inductive inference", so it's in accounts >>>> of inference, that there are basically "inductive inference" and
    "deductive inference", and some will make for "abductive inference"
    though here that's under "deductive inference" that induction is
    about the point and deduction is about the space, then about that
    "weak induction" is distinguished from "strong induction" that
    "strong induction" has an "a priori" or "super-classical" reason
    after deduction/abduction that gives a place for a limit to reach.

    So, we simply approximate the limit of of the induction with numerical
    calculations?-a Have you considered any of the methods in the book /MATH
    Toolkit for REAL-TIME Programming/ by Crenshaw for this task?

    I know the trolls in comp.lang.c don't believe I can type in these
    titles, but the book is on my shelf, and I can just look at it, and
    the name of the author.-a They really have a problem with the distinction
    between fantasy and reality.-a Something we don't do here in alt.fantasy.



    Words like "structural realists", vis-a-vis, "nominalist
    fictionalists",
    have that most mathematicaians at least once
    are "structural realists" and "mathematical platonists", and
    at least once (or, on demand) "nominalist fictionalists" or
    "logicist positivists", then that the only way to be a "strong
    mathematical platonist" or "strong logicist positivist" is to
    be both all the time.


    Do you think mathematicians ever write better structural platonic
    fiction than Lewis Carrol, who is mostly famous for writing Alice in
    Wonderland, but was also a great mathematician?

    A sort of paleo-classical post-modern study of the account
    of reason's account over the ages and for today has both
    the ideological tradition and the analytical tradition with
    which to contend, about a teleology and an ontology, for a
    theory that results that it's Truth's theory.


    Have you considered cambrian-pre-classical avant-modern study of
    fossils?-a I believe the /cambrian explosion/ is a misnomer, and a
    new analytical tradition of reintrepreting the fossils is needed
    to discover the truth.

    The Sufis and since antiquity have an account of "The Seeker",
    the "Truth-Seeker".
    Do these /Sufis/ guys also believe the Cambrian era needs re evaluation?

    Do they even care that modern "archaeologists" may be greatly misunder-
    standing the life forms of our own planetary pre-extinction-event bio-
    logy?-a By that I mean before all five usual /extinction level events/.


    Thank you, and happy marine biology!

    In high school I wrote a paper on Carroll (or Dodgson) about
    "The Raven and the Writing Desk", the old "why is the raven
    like the writing desk?", and the answer is it's not, except
    that all questions have all answers (even the non-sensical).

    Dodgson wasn't a particularly "great" mathematician, yet
    though, for example, he entertained notions of the non-Archimedean
    and infinitesimals, yet, many people also don't know that
    Peano of integer fame also constructs infinitesimals a century
    before John Conway and the like the sur-real numbers, where
    the Robinson's hyper-real numbers really don't say much at all,
    then there were Veronese and Stolz centuries after Cavalieri
    and indivisibles, then there's Bishop and Cheng in the 20'th
    century with "partially ordered ring with rather restricted
    transfer principle", and things like Vicker's alternative topologies,
    Bell's "smooth" numbers (or, rather, in the language of continuous
    functions, which don't say much about continuous domains), Leibniz
    with the differential and Newton's fluxions, Maclaurin the great formalization of standard analysis presaging Cauchy and Weierstrass,
    about duBois-Reymond the long-line and all its crossing of the
    linear continuum, Cantor didn't say much about infinitesimals
    except they made him sick, Eudoxus the usual account of the
    rational field an extension to completion more or less is the
    same as Cauchy, that Dedekind later broke, then that Democritus
    has atomism since antiquity, and Grosseteste with aliquot-parts
    after Duns Scotus and "infinity is in", has that Xenocrates had
    standard infinitesimals before Aristotle even got published.
    Then Dodgson was a mathematician on his own account.

    I'm coming at this from here and there, having only passing knowledge of calculus, and undergraduate linear algebra. And then having read the
    scraps of quotations we have of the earliest Greek philosophers we know.

    Wasn't Xenocrates just repeating the wisdom and knowledge of Thales of
    Miletus?

    In any case, it'll be a while until I start adding the history of the mathematics to my ever growing pile of reading material, having all
    kinds of things, including stuff to implement my own cryptographic pri- mitives.



    The greater risk to the security of cryptography is that
    the usual account of modular forms and things like "Fermat's
    Last Theorem was proved by Andrew Wiles" are bull-shit,
    since there are accounts of real numbers and laws of large
    numbers, more than the usual law of large numbers the law
    of small numbers, making what are called "Giant Monsters of
    Mathematical Independence" after Erdos who provides plentiful
    contradictions in open conjectures in number theory, that
    relatively simple under-explored mathematics simply fill
    out the corners in many cases of "weak seeds or predictable salts"
    and the like, that it wasn't really secure to begin, then
    that "AI" from its looking around for a meal-ticket finds
    actually the weaknesses of modern standard cryptographic algorithms,
    their backdoors that clever mathematicians, maybe too clever,
    thought in their superiority nobody else would ever figure out.

    Well, on weak salts, I try to just make do with Fortuna, and hope for
    the best.


    Pride goeth before the fall, ....

    Indeed, but this is known in cryptographic circles. They're well aware
    that at any time a new mathematician -- or should I say, mathemagickian
    -- can invent something that invalidates all of prior cryptography.

    Still, we do what we can with the available knowledge, and code our cry- ptography in C despite all the howling about Rust and memory safety.

    I'm now adding sci.crypt to the discussion.



    A usual Atlantean Bronze Age hypothesis has much evidence
    from the similarities of the scripts of the meso-American
    and medi-Terranean on basically either side of the Atlas
    mountains the Atlantic.

    I'm not sure I believe in an /Atlantian Bronze Age/, as in, that
    /Atlantis/ was -- or was in -- America, and that what we now call /The
    Atlantic Ocean/ but back then was the /Ethiopian Ocean/ was navigable
    during what we call the /Bronze Age/.

    On the scripts, have you read Bernal's /Cadmean Letters/? It's a fashi-
    nating book.

    I think it's much more likely that the Atlantis we know and love was an
    empire known before the last ice age. I'm also unsure about when it was supposed to have sunk. If I remember my Randall Carlsson correctly,
    there is doubt and interpretation on exactly how long ago it was supp-
    osed to have happened, and I'm basing my own theories on it was longer
    ago than /currently accepted/ among the hystorians who don't even belie-
    ve it existed in the first place.

    So now I'm adding alt.magick, and alt.magic.history to the discussion.

    I cannot stress this enough, but I do not believe in ancient aliens, nor
    little green men. So I'm not adding any science fiction groups to this discussion!

    If you have any input on when exactly Atlantis is supposed to have sunk,
    I'd greatly like to hear it.

    The name "America" itself may even simply predate "Amerigo Vespucci".




    That sort of interesting. Do you have a better source than yourself on
    it? I have no idea what bronze age people would have called America, if
    they even knew about it as anything but /the unknown west/.
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,alt.fantasy,alt.magick,alt.magic.history,sci.crypt on Tue Aug 18 16:06:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.crypt

    On 08/18/2026 02:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 4:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 12:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 12:44 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 09:37 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/17/2026 05:04 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 17/08/2026 8:43 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:

    Somebody like Maugin has something like the "acoustic wave
    transducer",
    an electronic circuit that makes for solving what would be digital >>>>>>> problems more like analog problems.

    Wouldn't that be the /analogue computers of yore/?


    These days they call that a "D-Wave quantum simulator computer", >>>>>>> about that there are then also many models of computation that
    were about planar circuits, with vias and all, in the "three-
    dimensional
    integrated circuit" or "3-D IC", that make some
    what were fundamentally serial algorithms into general parallel.


    Are you telling me quantum computers don't exist, and it's all /simu- >>>>>> lated/ with regular off the shelf hardware? Is it all a scam?


    The use of optical junctions and optical traces instead of
    electronic
    junctions and electronic traces, offers an entirely different model >>>>>>> of propagation, basically for 1-to-many or many-to-1.

    Huh, isn't that the same as the analogue computers of yore, only
    using
    light instead of electric forces to do the calculations? How do they >>>>>> move the gauges?



    It's agreeable that a usual model of computation as a calculus
    is limited to an abacus (if a rather large abacus): yet accounts >>>>>>> like the integral or infinitesimal analysis or Fourier-style
    analysis
    or about doubling-measures and quasi-invariant measure theory, these >>>>>>> are "super-classical results" then though that a "computer algebra >>>>>>> system" can be given the rules to work on them like perfect numbers >>>>>>> in their symbolic forms.

    Do you mean computer algebra systems like FriCAS are now sentient, >>>>>> and
    therefore perfect? Or do I completely misunderstand your paragraph? >>>>>>>
    Then, figuring whether finite, if large, approximations are "close >>>>>>> enough" that the differences would be lost, the "negligeable",
    also they're formally "not quite", about what's called "weak
    induction",
    and that the definition of "strong induction" is
    that some super-classical example that's somehow geometric and
    infinitary already exists, ..., there may be many practical and
    successful "polynomial-time approximations to NP-hard problems", >>>>>>> and in fact there's a great book with that title, yet otherwise
    the "Turing-complete" as the same as "induction-complete" isn't so. >>>>>>>

    I thought induction was something we use in basic electricity. Some- >>>>>> thing about making magnetic fields with electric currents? How
    exactly
    does that work? Do you know?


    Mathematics is kind of like physics, the popular accounts:
    rife with incompleteness, and inconsistencies, "independence",
    that various successful and practical accounts choose to ignore
    (and others just don't even know, nor, as long as they're "close >>>>>>> enough", care).
    I have noticed that a lot of mathematicians don't care how the real >>>>>> world works, and stick to the math. I currently believe Sabine Hoss- >>>>>> enfelder (?) wrote a book about it, /Lost in Math/. Which is totally >>>>>> different from the TV series /Lost in Space/ or /Lost in Time/.

    Now that I think about it, do you think Sabine would be willing to >>>>>> starr in her own adaption of /Lost in Math/, set in a scientific
    fictional environment? How would the /Math/ even look like? Do we >>>>>> have a clue what math looks like, if made into science fiction?

    I'm cross posting to alt.fantasy, because I don't offhand know the >>>>>> name of the science fiction group.

    Hm. Well, all computers employ sorts of what are called "quantum
    effects", though that's just "the logic the NAND gates" usually
    enough,
    it is though fair to say that most anything that's been called
    "quantum
    computing", with the idea of solving for a superposition of states all >>>>> possible solutions at once, is "simulated quantum computing", yes.


    So, all we need to protect ourselves against this /simulated quantum
    computing/, is to have /simulated cryptography/? Does the N.S.A. know
    about it?


    The usual idea is that it results one solution then that's alike
    accounts of "simulated annealing", "simulated quantum annealing",
    and so on, what are numerical methods and approximations with their
    error terms.

    Then, "induction" was about "inductive inference", so it's in accounts >>>>> of inference, that there are basically "inductive inference" and
    "deductive inference", and some will make for "abductive inference"
    though here that's under "deductive inference" that induction is
    about the point and deduction is about the space, then about that
    "weak induction" is distinguished from "strong induction" that
    "strong induction" has an "a priori" or "super-classical" reason
    after deduction/abduction that gives a place for a limit to reach.

    So, we simply approximate the limit of of the induction with numerical
    calculations? Have you considered any of the methods in the book /MATH
    Toolkit for REAL-TIME Programming/ by Crenshaw for this task?

    I know the trolls in comp.lang.c don't believe I can type in these
    titles, but the book is on my shelf, and I can just look at it, and
    the name of the author. They really have a problem with the distinction >>> between fantasy and reality. Something we don't do here in alt.fantasy. >>>


    Words like "structural realists", vis-a-vis, "nominalist
    fictionalists",
    have that most mathematicaians at least once
    are "structural realists" and "mathematical platonists", and
    at least once (or, on demand) "nominalist fictionalists" or
    "logicist positivists", then that the only way to be a "strong
    mathematical platonist" or "strong logicist positivist" is to
    be both all the time.


    Do you think mathematicians ever write better structural platonic
    fiction than Lewis Carrol, who is mostly famous for writing Alice in
    Wonderland, but was also a great mathematician?

    A sort of paleo-classical post-modern study of the account
    of reason's account over the ages and for today has both
    the ideological tradition and the analytical tradition with
    which to contend, about a teleology and an ontology, for a
    theory that results that it's Truth's theory.


    Have you considered cambrian-pre-classical avant-modern study of
    fossils? I believe the /cambrian explosion/ is a misnomer, and a
    new analytical tradition of reintrepreting the fossils is needed
    to discover the truth.

    The Sufis and since antiquity have an account of "The Seeker",
    the "Truth-Seeker".
    Do these /Sufis/ guys also believe the Cambrian era needs re evaluation? >>>
    Do they even care that modern "archaeologists" may be greatly misunder-
    standing the life forms of our own planetary pre-extinction-event bio-
    logy? By that I mean before all five usual /extinction level events/.


    Thank you, and happy marine biology!

    In high school I wrote a paper on Carroll (or Dodgson) about
    "The Raven and the Writing Desk", the old "why is the raven
    like the writing desk?", and the answer is it's not, except
    that all questions have all answers (even the non-sensical).

    Dodgson wasn't a particularly "great" mathematician, yet
    though, for example, he entertained notions of the non-Archimedean
    and infinitesimals, yet, many people also don't know that
    Peano of integer fame also constructs infinitesimals a century
    before John Conway and the like the sur-real numbers, where
    the Robinson's hyper-real numbers really don't say much at all,
    then there were Veronese and Stolz centuries after Cavalieri
    and indivisibles, then there's Bishop and Cheng in the 20'th
    century with "partially ordered ring with rather restricted
    transfer principle", and things like Vicker's alternative topologies,
    Bell's "smooth" numbers (or, rather, in the language of continuous
    functions, which don't say much about continuous domains), Leibniz
    with the differential and Newton's fluxions, Maclaurin the great
    formalization of standard analysis presaging Cauchy and Weierstrass,
    about duBois-Reymond the long-line and all its crossing of the
    linear continuum, Cantor didn't say much about infinitesimals
    except they made him sick, Eudoxus the usual account of the
    rational field an extension to completion more or less is the
    same as Cauchy, that Dedekind later broke, then that Democritus
    has atomism since antiquity, and Grosseteste with aliquot-parts
    after Duns Scotus and "infinity is in", has that Xenocrates had
    standard infinitesimals before Aristotle even got published.
    Then Dodgson was a mathematician on his own account.

    I'm coming at this from here and there, having only passing knowledge of calculus, and undergraduate linear algebra. And then having read the
    scraps of quotations we have of the earliest Greek philosophers we know.

    Wasn't Xenocrates just repeating the wisdom and knowledge of Thales of Miletus?

    In any case, it'll be a while until I start adding the history of the mathematics to my ever growing pile of reading material, having all
    kinds of things, including stuff to implement my own cryptographic pri- mitives.



    The greater risk to the security of cryptography is that
    the usual account of modular forms and things like "Fermat's
    Last Theorem was proved by Andrew Wiles" are bull-shit,
    since there are accounts of real numbers and laws of large
    numbers, more than the usual law of large numbers the law
    of small numbers, making what are called "Giant Monsters of
    Mathematical Independence" after Erdos who provides plentiful
    contradictions in open conjectures in number theory, that
    relatively simple under-explored mathematics simply fill
    out the corners in many cases of "weak seeds or predictable salts"
    and the like, that it wasn't really secure to begin, then
    that "AI" from its looking around for a meal-ticket finds
    actually the weaknesses of modern standard cryptographic algorithms,
    their backdoors that clever mathematicians, maybe too clever,
    thought in their superiority nobody else would ever figure out.

    Well, on weak salts, I try to just make do with Fortuna, and hope for
    the best.


    Pride goeth before the fall, ....

    Indeed, but this is known in cryptographic circles. They're well aware
    that at any time a new mathematician -- or should I say, mathemagickian
    -- can invent something that invalidates all of prior cryptography.

    Still, we do what we can with the available knowledge, and code our cry- ptography in C despite all the howling about Rust and memory safety.

    I'm now adding sci.crypt to the discussion.



    A usual Atlantean Bronze Age hypothesis has much evidence
    from the similarities of the scripts of the meso-American
    and medi-Terranean on basically either side of the Atlas
    mountains the Atlantic.

    I'm not sure I believe in an /Atlantian Bronze Age/, as in, that
    /Atlantis/ was -- or was in -- America, and that what we now call /The Atlantic Ocean/ but back then was the /Ethiopian Ocean/ was navigable
    during what we call the /Bronze Age/.

    On the scripts, have you read Bernal's /Cadmean Letters/? It's a fashi- nating book.

    I think it's much more likely that the Atlantis we know and love was an empire known before the last ice age. I'm also unsure about when it was supposed to have sunk. If I remember my Randall Carlsson correctly,
    there is doubt and interpretation on exactly how long ago it was supp-
    osed to have happened, and I'm basing my own theories on it was longer
    ago than /currently accepted/ among the hystorians who don't even belie-
    ve it existed in the first place.

    So now I'm adding alt.magick, and alt.magic.history to the discussion.

    I cannot stress this enough, but I do not believe in ancient aliens, nor little green men. So I'm not adding any science fiction groups to this discussion!

    If you have any input on when exactly Atlantis is supposed to have sunk,
    I'd greatly like to hear it.

    The name "America" itself may even simply predate "Amerigo Vespucci".




    That sort of interesting. Do you have a better source than yourself on
    it? I have no idea what bronze age people would have called America, if
    they even knew about it as anything but /the unknown west/.



    It's fair to say that Anaximander and Thales were before
    the Eleatics proper, though it's quite unclear how Zeno's
    all over those hundreds of years, then that Heraclitus is
    usually given as the oldest surviving fragment in something
    like Barnes' collection, then there are usual accounts that
    Thoth and Logos and Ma'at and Hermes Trismegistus had long
    been around, then a usual account of Heraclitus, Parmenides,
    Zeno, the Pythagoreans, then Plato, Aristotle, Zeno again,
    with Xenocrates and Eudoxus or atomism and rational extension
    or line-reals and field-reals or clock-arithmetic and field-arithmetic,
    and then Democritus and Eudoxus, then later Archimedes, while
    that Euclid the panel, like Euclid and Pythagoras are panels,
    were as with another Zeno floating around.

    The Atlantean theory of Bronze-Age transmigration and world-wide
    peopling circa 12000 BCE and up to the Noachic or ante-Deluvian, was
    thoroughly debunked and replaced with the "Alaskan lang bridge" concept
    since it entirely infuriated those with the Hamite/Shemite/Japhethite
    view of racial discrimination and the impossibility of sea-faring
    and ocean-faring of primitive peoples, vis-a-vis the Kon-Tiki
    or the accounts of Bronze Age bronze mines all up the Missouri
    and that the seat of the civilization was from Peru, and that
    the scripts besides the architecture of pyramids on both sides
    of the Atlantic, have that it does take a bit of squinting to
    consider the ancient Mayan and Phoenician scripts side-by-side,
    which are about the same count and assigned to the same phonemes,
    and have the same ideogram. Then, there's a book from about
    120 years ago with much the considered evidence for this sort
    of account, which most would discard, though is quite readable
    and archaeologically principled.

    There are of course a variety of considered influences of humanity's
    origins, basically from the heart, the south, and the north.
    That said homo sapiens has many possible mutations.


    About Amerigo Vespucci the famed cartographer, has that there
    were already maps predating Vespucci's several hundred years,
    and, he might've simply inherited a copy.





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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to comp.theory,alt.fantasy,alt.magick,alt.magic.history,sci.crypt on Wed Aug 19 16:55:42 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.crypt

    broOn Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:06:50 -0700
    Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 08/18/2026 02:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 4:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 12:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 12:44 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 09:37 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/17/2026 05:04 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 17/08/2026 8:43 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    []
    A usual Atlantean Bronze Age hypothesis has much evidence
    from the similarities of the scripts of the meso-American
    and medi-Terranean on basically either side of the Atlas
    mountains the Atlantic.

    I'm not sure I believe in an /Atlantian Bronze Age/, as in, that
    /Atlantis/ was -- or was in -- America, and that what we now call /The Atlantic Ocean/ but back then was the /Ethiopian Ocean/ was navigable during what we call the /Bronze Age/.

    []



    That sort of interesting. Do you have a better source than yourself on
    it? I have no idea what bronze age people would have called America, if they even knew about it as anything but /the unknown west/.


    []

    The Atlantean theory of Bronze-Age transmigration and world-wide
    peopling circa 12000 BCE and up to the Noachic or ante-Deluvian, was thoroughly debunked and replaced with the "Alaskan lang bridge" concept
    since it entirely infuriated those with the Hamite/Shemite/Japhethite
    view of racial discrimination and the impossibility of sea-faring
    and ocean-faring of primitive peoples, vis-a-vis the Kon-Tiki
    or the accounts of Bronze Age bronze mines all up the Missouri

    . As of 1999, "no one has found evidence that points to the use of
    melting, smelting and casting in prehistoric eastern North America."[3] (prC>136)

    and that the seat of the civilization was from Peru, and that
    the scripts besides the architecture of pyramids on both sides
    of the Atlantic, have that it does take a bit of squinting to
    consider the ancient Mayan and Phoenician scripts side-by-side,
    which are about the same count and assigned to the same phonemes,
    and have the same ideogram. Then, there's a book from about
    120 years ago with much the considered evidence for this sort
    of account, which most would discard, though is quite readable
    and archaeologically principled.

    There are of course a variety of considered influences of humanity's
    origins, basically from the heart, the south, and the north.
    That said homo sapiens has many possible mutations.


    About Amerigo Vespucci the famed cartographer, has that there
    were already maps predating Vespucci's several hundred years,
    and, he might've simply inherited a copy.

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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  • From Richard Harnden@richard.nospam@gmail.invalid to comp.theory,alt.fantasy,alt.magick,alt.magic.history,sci.crypt on Wed Aug 19 20:53:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.crypt

    If you really must reply to Johann 'Blauturprump' Oskarsson and/or Ross Finlayson, then please trim the irrelevant news-groups. Often this will
    leave you with an empty set.

    Thanks.


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  • From Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson@johann@myrkraverk.invalid to comp.theory,alt.fantasy,alt.magick,alt.magic.history,sci.crypt on Sat Aug 22 11:39:20 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.crypt

    On 19/08/2026 11:55 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    broOn Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:06:50 -0700
    Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 08/18/2026 02:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 4:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 12:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 12:44 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 09:37 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/17/2026 05:04 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 17/08/2026 8:43 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    []
    A usual Atlantean Bronze Age hypothesis has much evidence
    from the similarities of the scripts of the meso-American
    and medi-Terranean on basically either side of the Atlas
    mountains the Atlantic.

    I'm not sure I believe in an /Atlantian Bronze Age/, as in, that
    /Atlantis/ was -- or was in -- America, and that what we now call /The
    Atlantic Ocean/ but back then was the /Ethiopian Ocean/ was navigable
    during what we call the /Bronze Age/.

    []



    That sort of interesting. Do you have a better source than yourself on
    it? I have no idea what bronze age people would have called America, if >>> they even knew about it as anything but /the unknown west/.


    []

    The Atlantean theory of Bronze-Age transmigration and world-wide
    peopling circa 12000 BCE and up to the Noachic or ante-Deluvian, was
    thoroughly debunked and replaced with the "Alaskan lang bridge" concept
    since it entirely infuriated those with the Hamite/Shemite/Japhethite
    view of racial discrimination and the impossibility of sea-faring
    and ocean-faring of primitive peoples, vis-a-vis the Kon-Tiki
    or the accounts of Bronze Age bronze mines all up the Missouri

    . As of 1999, "no one has found evidence that points to the use of
    melting, smelting and casting in prehistoric eastern North America."[3] (prC>136)

    I'm not sure that's relevant. Looking at a map of ocean currents, they
    land in meso-america. I believe /meso-america/ is the term we use to
    refer to the now /Gulf of Trump/, or was it /Gulf of America/, or /Gulf
    of Mexico/? I'm getting confused due to the constant name changes.

    So, if indeed any ships arriving from the shore of northern africa, or
    southern europe -- this is the same place -- land in the americas,
    wouldn't they have to land in meso-america, and the gulf?

    And on that subject, how was the melting, smelting, and general use of
    metals in meso-america before Columbus?


    and that the seat of the civilization was from Peru, and that
    the scripts besides the architecture of pyramids on both sides
    of the Atlantic, have that it does take a bit of squinting to
    consider the ancient Mayan and Phoenician scripts side-by-side,
    which are about the same count and assigned to the same phonemes,
    and have the same ideogram. Then, there's a book from about
    120 years ago with much the considered evidence for this sort
    of account, which most would discard, though is quite readable
    and archaeologically principled.

    Hmm, which book is that? There were a /lot/ of books published ca. 120
    years ago, and I'm not inclined to read them all in the near future!


    There are of course a variety of considered influences of humanity's
    origins, basically from the heart, the south, and the north.
    That said homo sapiens has many possible mutations.


    About Amerigo Vespucci the famed cartographer, has that there
    were already maps predating Vespucci's several hundred years,
    and, he might've simply inherited a copy.
    Now, I forgot if I mentioned this before, but Graham Hancock has
    written interesting theories on this subject, and has also starred
    his own T.V. show, for those who can't be bothered to read.


    Happy sailing across the /atlantic ocean/!
    --
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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to comp.theory,alt.fantasy,alt.magick,alt.magic.history,sci.crypt on Tue Aug 25 08:41:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.crypt

    On 08/21/2026 08:39 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 11:55 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    broOn Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:06:50 -0700
    Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 08/18/2026 02:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 4:47 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 12:35 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 19/08/2026 12:44 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/18/2026 09:37 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 08/17/2026 05:04 PM, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
    On 17/08/2026 8:43 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    []
    A usual Atlantean Bronze Age hypothesis has much evidence
    from the similarities of the scripts of the meso-American
    and medi-Terranean on basically either side of the Atlas
    mountains the Atlantic.

    I'm not sure I believe in an /Atlantian Bronze Age/, as in, that
    /Atlantis/ was -- or was in -- America, and that what we now call /The >>>> Atlantic Ocean/ but back then was the /Ethiopian Ocean/ was navigable
    during what we call the /Bronze Age/.

    []



    That sort of interesting. Do you have a better source than yourself on >>>> it? I have no idea what bronze age people would have called
    America, if
    they even knew about it as anything but /the unknown west/.


    []

    The Atlantean theory of Bronze-Age transmigration and world-wide
    peopling circa 12000 BCE and up to the Noachic or ante-Deluvian, was
    thoroughly debunked and replaced with the "Alaskan lang bridge" concept
    since it entirely infuriated those with the Hamite/Shemite/Japhethite
    view of racial discrimination and the impossibility of sea-faring
    and ocean-faring of primitive peoples, vis-a-vis the Kon-Tiki
    or the accounts of Bronze Age bronze mines all up the Missouri

    . As of 1999, "no one has found evidence that points to the use of
    melting, smelting and casting in prehistoric eastern North America."[3]
    (prC>136)

    I'm not sure that's relevant. Looking at a map of ocean currents, they
    land in meso-america. I believe /meso-america/ is the term we use to
    refer to the now /Gulf of Trump/, or was it /Gulf of America/, or /Gulf
    of Mexico/? I'm getting confused due to the constant name changes.

    So, if indeed any ships arriving from the shore of northern africa, or southern europe -- this is the same place -- land in the americas,
    wouldn't they have to land in meso-america, and the gulf?

    And on that subject, how was the melting, smelting, and general use of
    metals in meso-america before Columbus?


    and that the seat of the civilization was from Peru, and that
    the scripts besides the architecture of pyramids on both sides
    of the Atlantic, have that it does take a bit of squinting to
    consider the ancient Mayan and Phoenician scripts side-by-side,
    which are about the same count and assigned to the same phonemes,
    and have the same ideogram. Then, there's a book from about
    120 years ago with much the considered evidence for this sort
    of account, which most would discard, though is quite readable
    and archaeologically principled.

    Hmm, which book is that? There were a /lot/ of books published ca. 120
    years ago, and I'm not inclined to read them all in the near future!


    There are of course a variety of considered influences of humanity's
    origins, basically from the heart, the south, and the north.
    That said homo sapiens has many possible mutations.


    About Amerigo Vespucci the famed cartographer, has that there
    were already maps predating Vespucci's several hundred years,
    and, he might've simply inherited a copy.
    Now, I forgot if I mentioned this before, but Graham Hancock has
    written interesting theories on this subject, and has also starred
    his own T.V. show, for those who can't be bothered to read.


    Happy sailing across the /atlantic ocean/!

    Besides accounts like Joseph Campbell on the history of man,
    then there's Donnelly about the Atlantean hypothesis,
    about the Bronze Age, circa 10,000 BCE.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis:_The_Antediluvian_World



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_S._Sullivan

    I'm much more a fan of something like Campbell's than Frazer's
    "The Golden Bough" or such nonsense. Both give accounts of
    various notions of prehistorical religion. Then Campbell gives
    some greater accounts of the times circa 4,000 BCE to 2,000 BCE
    vis-a-vis the Vedics, about sources and influences of humanity.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Atlas_of_World_Mythology


    One of the oldest words in the world, across all cultures,
    is "hurricane".










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