On 10/23/2014 12:37 AM, LizR wrote:
On 23 October 2014 15:29, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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.
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