Everyday Physics and Extended Bodies
Ka: A question; not a story!
Dear All, please allow me to begin with a disclaimer ;)
Full disclosure: Much, if not all, of my knowledge and/or understanding of Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Vedas is based on Telugu movies that I saw as a teen.
If I am not mistaken, the last word of Vedas is Ka: a question (e.g., what), or, may very well be, a mere question mark (?).
Be that as it may, I am here to announce that I renounced stories and embraced questions: questions that were and continue to be the canonical qualities — form & substance — defining me since 1998, when I began to study Lawvere & Schanuel, Conceptual Mathematics.
Ka 1: Is everyday physics of extended bodies everyday physics?
Naively speaking, in our everyday experience (including planned perception/experiments) everything we encounter appears to be an extended body. Hence, I was tempted to answer Yes to the above question.
Of course, if everyday phyiscs included bodies that are not necessarily extended, then we have to answer: everyday physics is not just everyday physics of extended bodies.
Given that I’m not a physicist, in all sincerity, it’s not at all clear to me how to address Ka 1. Before I make my problem your problem, here’s how it all started:
F. William Lawvere (2017) Everyday physics of extended bodies or why functionals need analyzing, Categories and General Algebraic Structures with Applications 6: 9-19 (https://cgasa.sbu.ac.ir/article_40434_9767cf7e5bb1b3e6e8b6cb442625ee0f.pdf).
I’d appreciate you highlighting any flaws in my reasoning, and, better yet, a definitive answer to my plausibly ill-formulated question.
Happy Thursday :)
Thanking you,
Yours truly,
posina
