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As Einstein said, "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."[1]
by jordigh 11y ago
As Einstein said, "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."[1]
Forgive me for not addressing directly what you said, as you seem to be using "countable" to mean something other than "in bijection with the natural numbers". I don't really understand exactly what you mean. But it appears to me that you're trying to perfectly reconcile mathematics with experimental reality. This is impossible. Also, a lot of mathematical physics is very distant from experimental reality.
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[1] http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Extras/Einstein_geometry.html http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Extras/Einstein_g...
- noobermin 11y agoI might be confusing this thread with another. The posters there claimed that when considering the infinite number of possible systems that you end up with undecidable statements. Probably countability has nothing to do with this. Also, the popular article linked elsewhere seems to imply that this has very real implications on experiment, which is upsetting.