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The argument of the author is not that the real numbers are poorly named, it's that the mathematical abstraction supposes physically impossible properties of th
by danharaj 8y ago
The argument of the author is not that the real numbers are poorly named, it's that the mathematical abstraction supposes physically impossible properties of the model. Therefore physics ought to be based on an abstraction that has more physically plausible properties instead of the real numbers.
Not that I necessarily agree with such an argument.