On 22 October 2014 08:40, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:14:14AM -0400, John Clark wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> So you don't assume the real numbers exist?
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > Indeed.
> > >
> >
> > Interesting.
> >
>
> In Bruno's TOE, real numbers don't exist in the same way as integers,
> much in the spirit of Kronecker's famous quote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker
>

Quantum theory would appear to support Kronecker. Relativity is more
concerned with real numbers, not to mention continua - but I have a feeling
that most physicists would bet on QM as being closer to reality than GR, if
pushed.

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