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 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
