Rowan Brad Quni

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Illusion of Randomness: Prime Numbers Expose the Limits of Human Knowledge

https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/Illusion+of+Randomness

#math #science

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Illusion of Randomness Prime Numbers Expose the Limits of Human Knowledge Rowan Brad Quni, QNFO We are driven to find order. When confronted by patterns that elude our immediate grasp, we impose the …

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The N=1 Problem

"Our scientific models predicting life elsewhere, however sophisticated, remain untestable speculations grounded in precisely zero comparative data. This limitation haunts our grandest #science narratives about the #universe and our potential place within it."

#cosmology #space #astrophysics

https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/N%3D1+Problem

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The N=1 Problem Rowan Brad Quni, QNFO Billions of galaxies stretch across billions of light-years, containing untold numbers of stars and planets. Faced with this staggering immensity, the question o…

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A recurring thought is that my assessment of #life as a #human--whenever I exit this existence some decades in the #future--will be something to the effect of "we really aren't that #smart."

Implied Discretization and the Limits of Modeling Continuous Reality

"We define 'implied discretization' as the unavoidable imposition of granularity, finiteness, and approximation onto the representation and processing of potentially continuous variables and dynamics, arising solely and inevitably from the inherent limitations of finite-precision computation within digital systems."

https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/Implied+Discretization/Implied+Discretization

#math #science #research

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#Google #YouTube algorithms are way too good: I asked #Gemini for #research on the golden ratio and next thing you know, I'm watching a #Disney kids cartoon (from 1959!) that probably would have made me feel a lot different about #math growing up.

Best line: "Gee Mr Spirit, there's a lot more to mathematics than two times two"

(Side note: How quaint that Donald Duck proudly displays a pentagram as an initiate into Pythagorean "secrets")

https://youtu.be/EhWJUn5z2iE

Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land (1959)

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The Ultimate Reality Framework Examination (URFE) assesses theoretical frameworks that purport to describe the fundamental nature of reality. It serves as an “ultimate intellectual stress test,” demanding that candidate theories confront not only the known unknowns within #physics and #cosmology but also the profound mysteries surrounding existence, #consciousness, #information, and #knowledge itself.

https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/Ultimate+Reality+Framework+Examination

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The Ultimate Reality Framework Examination (URFE) Version 3.1.1 1. Preamble: Defining the Challenge The Ultimate Reality Framework Examination (URFE) is a rigorous protocol designed to assess the com…

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Beyond the Tyranny of Mathematical Formalism

https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/Beyond+the+Tyranny+of+Math

The obsession with Lagrangians—equations that encode the dynamics of a system—reveals another flaw in the conventional paradigm: the assumption that reality must be deterministically describable at all levels. This is not just empirically dubious (given quantum indeterminacy), but logically incoherent. #math #physics #logic

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Information Ontology (IO): Beyond the Tyranny of Mathematical Formalism Rowan Brad Quni, QNFO In the course of multi-year ongoing research, a shift from Information Dynamics to Information Ontology (…

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A Skeptical Journey Through Conventional Reality: Questioning the Foundations Beneath Our Scientific Stories

https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/Skeptical+Journey+through+Conventional+Reality

#science #physics #logic #philosophy

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A Skeptical Journey Through Conventional Reality Questioning the Foundations Beneath Our Scientific Stories Rowan Brad Quni We live immersed in narratives woven by science – tales of fundamental part…

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@CosmicRami if in fact the scientific community is following the wisdom of Sagan that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (🫶), then what to make of dark matter and energy, as well as our standard model particle zoo? (i.e. I don't get the sense that advice is well heeded just by browsing recent science headlines)

Fwiw (and I'm trying to be fair here) Carl Sagan also helped send a "golden record" into space but said we shouldn't try to contact aliens... kind of a mixed message 🤷‍♂️

@GESIS I thought I had written something specifically about responsible use of AI for research but have several mini pieces addressing things like hallucinations and best practices. This was written with AI in mind and might be useful to some: https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/5I
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Iterative Falsification and Computational Prototyping: The Five “I” Process for Theoretical Innovation The pursuit of scientific knowledge has long been hindered by systemic flaws embedded in traditi…

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