That math is still nowhere close to the Calculus, at all

And I guarantee you they had no idea of what the speed of light was. Or even wondered if it had a speed. It just 'was' to them.

And I've heard the thing about sirius, and it was definitely a story they told as part of a myth. If it can't be seen with the naked eye...they can't see or know of it fo real. QED.

Methinks you have been reading too much of this nonsense.

also, what is this 21st Century looking to the past for solutions instead of thinking forward and finding new solutions ? I find it really seriously disturbing.

Without forward thinking, we would not be communicating in this way at all. Aand not nearly so fast.

The sexagesimal system of math is much more complex than our current one. Everyone agrees on that. Some also claim it was more accurate at working with very small or very large numbers, so maybe even a better system than what we use.

And they were the first culture to use symbols to represent large numbers in Math, which could be considered the beginning of Algebra. Algebra was born in the same area, after all.

And methinks you haven't been reading about much of this at all. It's easy to just dismiss everything, or maybe at most go to the skeptics dictionary and let them tell you what to think. Read it all for yourself and decide. Don't even let me do the thinking for you.

I don't think anyone is looking to the past for solutions. Just trying to make sense of our past. A lot of things don't add up. We can't be sure of our future without knowing our past.

Even if the end of the world happens i'm refusing to acknowledge it since i'm seeing my GF again next saturday.

Finally, blame those who burned the Library at Alexandria. That's where all the amazing ancient truths were kept. That we do know. Yes, it's sad it's mostly all gone. Without that, which is not recovarable, we just are not going to know. I'm sure they had some fascinating lost ideas that we have not thought of or different methods of aproach to what we have had to re-learn

One of the main points of mathematics is simplification, not complexity. The calculus allows extensions of itself to be applied not only to biology and chemistry, but astronomy....and just about anything else. In fact everything. And yes Algebra was born in the same area. But even then the concept of Integration was nonexistent and unknown. And their system is unworkable for quantuum equations and Infinite Set Theory in particular. Also again, no zero. 1-1 equaled the unknown.

Our system is just fine with both large and small numbers. Not sure what that statement is supposed to mean.

None of this is 'better' than our system in anyway. Otherwise, every mathemetician would have poo-poohed Newton and his Principia awhile back. If anyone ever wrote a proof of the existence of God, every scientist and mathematician would immediately start believeing. Trust me on that one.

Thank you for presenting what you did. Yes, I read through it all and have come to my own conclusions. None of it was alien or wrong, but none of your statements are concludable by the materials presented.

Finally, blame those who burned the Library at Alexandria. That's where all the amazing ancient truths were kept. That we do know. Yes, it's sad it's mostly all gone. Without that, which is not recovarable, we just are not going to know. I'm sure they had some fascinating lost ideas that we have not thought of or different methods of aproach to what we have had to re-learn.

I just do not believe these systems were better or more efficient. We would have adopted them if so. That's all really.

silly augustus and his legions.

You just seem to want to dismiss modern science entirely or something.

I'm not sure where you're getting that. I'm obsessed with modern science.

This is just about how so-called primitive cultures had advanced knowledge of things. There's no denying they did. The only thing up for argument is how.

the romans may not have destroyed it completely. but it did get damaged in several roman campaigns there. caesar damaged it during the egyptian revolts following cleopatra's elevation to power. and augustus certainly caused it harm during his siege of alexandria during the final months of his conflict with marcus antonius.

it's hard to pin down who is most repsonsible. the library was subjected to fire many times.

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."

And I've heard the thing about sirius, and it was definitely a story they told as part of a myth. If it can't be seen with the naked eye...they can't see or know of it fo real. QED.

I personally think that "paranormal events", "miracles," or whatever you want to call them do happen. And that there's a scientific explanation for them. We just haven't found it yet.

There is no explanation for Medusa as she could not really be seen, heard, etc., much less really experienced. Therefore fiction

You claimed they had better math than the Calculus.

Oh yeah, the reason i'm so jaded about this is because i've seen a few doomsdays come and go.

I heard someone once suggest the reason people want the world to end in their lifetime is because they don't like the idea of it continuing after they die.