On Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 10:28:11 AM UTC+2 Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 3 Jul 2021, at 14:13, Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote: > Can't there be a machine that computes gravitational interaction with > gravitational constant 6.674 x 10 to the -11 up until some time t and then > continues the computation with gravitational constant 5 x 10 to the -11, or > just halts? That would be an instability or cessation of gravitational law. > > > Yes, and that exists, but such world will have a very low probability to > be accessed by any observer, due to the fact that, below our mechanist > substitution level, all such theories intervene. >
How low is this probability? Is it maybe as low as the probability that my whole body quantum-tunnels through a wall? What does it mean that "below our mechanist substitution level, all such theories intervene"? -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ac93cc4b-eecd-4c66-ad68-45b61bd81d47n%40googlegroups.com.
