On 23 October 2014 15:29, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/22/2014 7:12 PM, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:30 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> > > > Quantum mechanics assumes real and complex numbers. > > > Quantum mechanics works very well, but every time we've tested it > with experiment the values we put into it and the values we measure after > the experiment have only had values at best a dozen or so places to the > right of the decimal point. Are we justified in extrapolating from that > that it would work just as well if there were a infinite number if digits > to the right of the decimal point? I honestly don't know. > > I think it's just a convenience for reasoning about rational numbers. But > then I also think rational numbers are just part of our model of the world. >
That isn't too surprising. Anything we can think about is part of a model of the world. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
