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You have not shown me why the maths will not work. As I said, the system works in real world simulation with bits of paper for R and L tokens and objects to represent goods and services being traded. Bumble bees can fly even if maths is against them! If someone would kindly show me where I have gone wrong, then I can go off and do something more useful!
by martinahay on Thu Aug 22nd, 2013 at 09:44:36 AM EST
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Please go off and do something more useful.

Finance is the brain [tumour] of the economy
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Aug 22nd, 2013 at 10:14:43 AM EST
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martinahay:
Bumble bees can fly even if maths is against them!

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So, no one "proved" that a bumblebee can't fly. What was shown was that a certain simple mathematical model wasn't adequate or appropriate for describing the flight of a bumblebee.

Insect flight and wing movements can be quite complicated. Wings aren't rigid. They bend and twist. Stroke angles change. New, improved models take that into account.

If you want a better example, steam engines worked quite well and were widespread for decades before thermodynamics had come to the point of being able to model them satisfactory.

But for that to be convincing, it needs to demonstrably solve an actual problem. For example by following Zwackus' suggestion:

Zwackus:

Lay it out for us.  Illustrate for us, through a simple transactional example, what the problem is with our current system.  Show us the negative outcome.  Then re-form that example using your own system, and point out how it is clearly better.

If you do that, then you don't need algebra, or forays into quantum mechanics to show the usefulness of your system. If it is useful, it can then be modeled, but if you can't show how it is useful, then the model will not save it.

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by A swedish kind of death on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 08:12:05 AM EST
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Honestly, I have already done that many times. The idea is so simple that people keep pressing me to explain it in all sorts of complicated ways, so that they can "understand" it. The most obvious things: the ones in plain sight, are the hardest to see. If you just treat one part of debt and credit as an imaginary store of value, then you end up allowing a small number of people to accumulate lots of imaginary stores of value, and a large number of people end up with lots of imaginary negative stores of value that they cannot get rid of. It all starts when you allow someone to use cash to buy something off someone who is not in debt.
by martinahay on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 08:22:14 AM EST
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This entire thread is proof positive that no, you have not done it.

Finance is the brain [tumour] of the economy
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 08:34:16 AM EST
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