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Archimedes Plutonium (born July 5, 1950), also known as Ludwig Plutonium, wrote extensively about science and mathematics on Usenet. In 1990 he became convinced that the universe could be thought of as an atom of plutonium, and changed his name to Ludwig Plutonium to reflect this idea. He is notable for his offbeat ideas about physical constants, human evolution, and nonstandard models of infinite arithmetic ^[1][2]. A Usenet personality is an individual who has gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet. ... is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity of a value that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and not believed to change in time. ... // For the history of humans on Earth, see History of the world. ... In the most restricted sense, nonstandard analysis or non-standard analysis is that branch of mathematics that formulates analysis using a rigorous notion of infinitesimal, where an element of an ordered field F is infinitesimal if and only if its absolute value is smaller than any element of F of...

Archimedes Plutonium, in his Usenet posts, was the first to describe the process of biasing search-engine results by planting references, and coined the phrase search-engine bombing to describe it. This later became well-known as google bombing^[3][4]. A Google bomb or Google wash is an attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned by the Google search engine. ...

Biographical Sketch

Plutonium was born under the name Ludwig Poehlmann in Arzberg, Germany. His family moved to the United States and settled near Cincinnati, Ohio, where Plutonium was adopted into the Hansen family and brought up under the name Ludwig Hansen. After changing his name to Ludwig Plutonium, he began posting to Usenet in 1993. His prolific posts quickly made him an internet celebrity. Arzberg may refer to: Arzberg, Bavaria, a town in northeastern Bavaria, Germany Arzberg, Saxony, a municipality in Saxony, Germany Arzberg, Austria, a municipality in Styria, Austria This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Cincinnati, Ohio viewed from the SW, across the Ohio River from Kentucky. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Largest metro area Greater Cleveland Area  Ranked 34th  - Total 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km²)  - Width 220 miles (355 km)  - Length 220 miles (355 km)  - % water 8. ... Usenet (USEr NETwork) is a global, decentralized, distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. ...

Plutonium was questioned by New Hampshire police during the investigation of a murder, although the crime was completely solved a short time later and he was not involved in any way^[5]. In a review of the investigation, the Boston Globe noted him as a "…former campus dishwasher who raised attention with his online rantings about the school." ^[6]. Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  Ranked 46th  - Total 9,350 sq mi (24,217 km²)  - Width 68 miles (110 km)  - Length 190 miles (305 km)  - % water 4. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ...

Plutonium Atom Totality

Plutonium Atom totality is a metaphysical idea that the universe should somehow be thought of as a gigantic atom of the element plutonium, Pu 231. It is not believed by most scientists that the universe considered as a whole is any type of atom, let alone an atom of plutonium. The cosmic atom, often written ATOM, is a manifestation of god, or the totality of all things. It is attributed with some divine properties, although the physical universe in Plutonium philosophy only obeys natural laws and does not include supernatural phenomenon ^[7] General Name, Symbol, Number plutonium, Pu, 94 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery white Standard atomic weight (244) g·mol−1 Electron configuration [Rn] 5f6 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ...

Plutonian Integers

An integer in Plutonium's philosophical view includes objects which have a decimal expansion which never ends. Just as the real number ¹/₃ can be represented as A numeral is a symbol or group of symbols that represents a number. ...

the infinite integer whose decimal expansion consists solely of 3s is a valid Plutonian integer

This type of number resembles the p-adic integers, but it is very different because it is not considered as a convergent sequence, but as a philosophically primitive element of the mathematical universe, an integer. This type of object has no counterpart in standard mathematics, and all of the results that Plutonium claims for them are not accepted as part of mainstream mathematics. In mathematics, the p-adic number systems were first described by Kurt Hensel in 1897. ...

The addition and multiplication of Plutonian integers is defined by a digit-wise procedure. Any product or sum which produces integers with equal digits are equal. So for example, in Plutonian arithmetic

which demonstrates that

The number x can now be identified.

In general, to negate a number, the answer is expressed in infinite ten's complement, which flips every digit p to 9-p and adds 1. Twos complement is a method of signifying negative numbers in binary. ...

It is easy to see that every rational number, positive or negative, has a Plutonian representation. There is no sense, though, in which ¹/_n is small when n becomes large, nor is there any sense in which 10ⁿ is small either. So the Plutonian integers have no continuity structure analogous to that on the real numbers or p-adics. The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

It is a theorem of Peano Arithmetic that In mathematics, the Peano axioms (or Peano postulates) are a set of first-order axioms proposed by Giuseppe Peano which determine the theory of Peano arithmetic (also known as first-order arithmetic). ...

but this is not a property of the Plutonian integers. So the Plutonian integers violate some of the usual laws of arithmetic.

Plutonium uses this to find counterexamples to many problems in number theory. For example, he finds Plutonian integers which have the property that:

the counterpart in Plutonian arithmetic to the well known p-adic statement that there are counterexamples to Fermat's Last Theorem in any p-adic base. Accepting the Plutonian integers as the true integers leads to a philosophical idea of counting which is explicitly infinitary. In this philosophy, Fermat's Last Theorem, which was proved to be true of the standard integers by Andrew Wiles, is false. Pierre de Fermats conjecture written in the margin of his copy of Arithmetica proved to be one of the most intriguing and enigmatic mathematical problems ever devised. ... For the French mathematician with work in the area of elliptic curves, see André Weil. ...

Plutonium often states that the set of all integers is uncountable, which in standard mathematical language is an oxymoron. By this statement he usually means that the set of all Plutonian integers cannot be ordered into a list in the usual way. His proof for this claim is to apply the Cantor's diagonal argument to the Plutonian integers. He also sometimes states that there is a direct one-to-one map from the real numbers to the integers, which consists of taking all the digits behind the decimal point and putting them in front. In mathematics, an uncountable set is a set which is not countable. ... Look up oxymoron in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Cantors diagonal argument, also called the diagonalisation argument, the diagonal slash argument or the diagonal method, was published in 1891 by Georg Cantor as a proof that there are infinite sets which cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the infinite set of natural numbers. ...

Plutonium often refers to the integers as Adic Integers. The name derives from the loose analogy with p-adics. In later writing, he extends such infinite integers to sometimes include arbitrary ordinal-like sequences of digits, with some difficult-to-follow and admittedly inconclusive results ^[8].

Other Notable Writing

Plutonium has supported some well known scholarly positions in his writing. He has questioned the accuracy of narratives about the historical Jesus, a popular non-mainstream view in early Christian scholarship^[9]. He also formulated a theory of group selection, caused by warfare, as the source of human intelligence^[10]. He is the author of countless other ideas and speculations, most of which claim to displace currently accepted mathematical and scientific theories.

Quotes

• "The whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies."

• "God is Science, and Science is god."

• "God is this one big atom that comprises all the Universe, much like what Spinoza discovered some centuries past, called pantheism. Where we are a tiny part of God itself. And where there is a heaven and hell in part of the atom structure. And where we will be judged by God when we die and our photon and neutrino souls will reincarnate once again in a future life somewhere in the Cosmos."

• "The world's finest Bibles are current physics textbooks or biology or chemistry textbooks such as the Feynman Lectures on Physics."

• "When you have a foggy notion of what you are working with, it is impossible to prove much about them."

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