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Have you tried to replicate the bottle experiment?
by the-dude 8y ago
Have you tried to replicate the bottle experiment?
- teddyh 8y agoReplicate? It’s a thought experiment.
- coldtea 8y agoEven better, the result is based on pure math. It doesn't need experimental replication, it's provably so. (It doesn't even need any special proof, anymore than 10+34 = 44 needs a proof of its own. It's basic calculus).
- reacweb 8y agoIn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica the conclusion that 1+1=2 appears only at page 379. It was a hard proof ;-)
- taejo 8y agoThat's only true if you take a pretty arcane definition of 1 and 2, BTW. In modern axiomatizations of mathematics, as well as Peano's 19th-century axiomatization of arithmetic, the definitions of 1 and 2 are simpler, and the proofs that 1+1=2 take a couple lines.