02-21-2002, 04:00 PM
Okay, when you say that an even number is a sum of two primes, all you're really saying is that there's some inbetween number between zero and that number, where from zero to the inbetween is a prime, and from the inbetween to the number is a prime.
So, call zero and the number each zero on two different number lines, with one counting from zero to the number starting at the left, and one counting backwards zero to the number starting at the right. For every prime hole on one number line, can we fill it with a frequency of a prime on the other?
Obviously, since no two prime numbers are an odd number apart, no frequency of a prime on one line - say 10, 15, 20, 25 - can fill more than one prime hole on the other line. The only exception woudl be 1-waves - which we're not allowed to use - and 2-waves - if we could stagger two of them or offset them an odd number.
But since we're only allowed even numbers from zero, we can't use two staggered frequencies of 2 to fill eveyr other hole on both lines. Moreover, since 2 is an even distance from zero - an exception to the even-distance from a prime rule - we can use it to fill two prime holes on the other line.
So some frequency or product of 2 on each line can fill 2 and 0 on the other, and then we need at least one different prime on each line to match every hole on the other in some product of itself. Problem is, 1's aren't available to use frequencies or products of on one line to fill holes on the other, but each line's 1-hole needs to be filled!
So, short a frequency, this leaves an unfilled hole somewhere on the opposite line, and there must be at least one such uniflled hole on each line. If they are in the same place, at the middle, they take care of each other, and present the most obvious Goldbach candidate.
If there is no middle, such as with the number 18, you might get a loose, say, 7 on both lines, but they're not on top of each other. So this creates a loose 11 which they are opposite. Only now we have an even number of holes called for, and we still must have that 1 extra. There must be an odd number of loose-end numbers other than 1.
More specifically, you have numbers like 17 whose products are never used, meaning there must be a naked prime on the other side. Theoretically, it seems you could usually just have, like, 17 and 1, leaving your 1's uncovered, and be done with it.
But then there are still other frequency primes whose products are never used, which must pair off symmetrically in even quantities. These are like numbers that are greater than half, and numbers like 7, where 14 - meaning 4 on the other side - is already called for by 2, and not prime, so the seven hangs useless, with 21/-3 being totally useless.
Did I miss anything?
eLROY
So, call zero and the number each zero on two different number lines, with one counting from zero to the number starting at the left, and one counting backwards zero to the number starting at the right. For every prime hole on one number line, can we fill it with a frequency of a prime on the other?
Obviously, since no two prime numbers are an odd number apart, no frequency of a prime on one line - say 10, 15, 20, 25 - can fill more than one prime hole on the other line. The only exception woudl be 1-waves - which we're not allowed to use - and 2-waves - if we could stagger two of them or offset them an odd number.
But since we're only allowed even numbers from zero, we can't use two staggered frequencies of 2 to fill eveyr other hole on both lines. Moreover, since 2 is an even distance from zero - an exception to the even-distance from a prime rule - we can use it to fill two prime holes on the other line.
So some frequency or product of 2 on each line can fill 2 and 0 on the other, and then we need at least one different prime on each line to match every hole on the other in some product of itself. Problem is, 1's aren't available to use frequencies or products of on one line to fill holes on the other, but each line's 1-hole needs to be filled!
So, short a frequency, this leaves an unfilled hole somewhere on the opposite line, and there must be at least one such uniflled hole on each line. If they are in the same place, at the middle, they take care of each other, and present the most obvious Goldbach candidate.
If there is no middle, such as with the number 18, you might get a loose, say, 7 on both lines, but they're not on top of each other. So this creates a loose 11 which they are opposite. Only now we have an even number of holes called for, and we still must have that 1 extra. There must be an odd number of loose-end numbers other than 1.
More specifically, you have numbers like 17 whose products are never used, meaning there must be a naked prime on the other side. Theoretically, it seems you could usually just have, like, 17 and 1, leaving your 1's uncovered, and be done with it.
But then there are still other frequency primes whose products are never used, which must pair off symmetrically in even quantities. These are like numbers that are greater than half, and numbers like 7, where 14 - meaning 4 on the other side - is already called for by 2, and not prime, so the seven hangs useless, with 21/-3 being totally useless.
Did I miss anything?
eLROY