On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:16:09AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Some constant might be intrinsically not computable. Normally, the physical > laws should at some point take into account the probability of (self) halting, > which would introduce a non computable constant in nature, although it would > be > computable from the halting oracle. Mechanism prevents the physical reality > from being entirely computable. I suspect Planck constant to be not > computable, > because if we extract QM from arithmetic, the Planck constant might very well > related to the mechanist substitution level.
The Planck constant is, like the speed of light c, a unit conversion factor. In natural units, it is 1 (or at least ℏ is set to 1). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
