The
Riemann Hypothesis will imply that Nature’s
prime number dice are fair.
If I toss a coin 1,000,000 times it is unlikely
to land heads exactly 500,000 times. How big can
the deviation be before we might suspect that
the coin is biased. If the error is within the
square root of 1,000,000 either way, statisticians
regard this as a fair coin.
Gauss’s guess was based on the prime number
dice landing on the prime side exactly once out
of every log(N) throws. The way the dice really
landed is given by the staircase of primes. Riemann’s
music tells us the error between these two. The
louder a note, the bigger the error between Gauss’s
guess and the real number of primes.
The loudness of the note is determined by the
east-west coordinate of each point at sea-level.
Riemann guessed that every note will have east-west
coordinate equal to 1/2. This will cause an error
of N1/2=squareroot of N.
So if every point at sea-level is on the critical
line, the error between Gauss’s guess and
the true number of primes is square root of N.
THE PRIME NUMBER DICE ARE NOT BIASED.
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