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> It necessarily includes a formal system. That much has been hammered into the ground already, and you'll discover it for yourself as soon as you attempt to fo
by egdod 7y ago
> It necessarily includes a formal system. That much has been hammered into the ground already, and you'll discover it for yourself as soon as you attempt to formalize your description.
That’s a bald assertion, not an answer. And one can certainly imagine descriptions of physics that don’t require a formal system.
Here’s one: “every particle remains at rest for all t.” Now, that doesn’t describe our universe very well. But it might be a perfectly good description of a single-electron universe.
There’s no a priori reason to assume that a valid description of physics is axiomatizable in a formal system. Aruguments to the contrary are necessarily based on our own ignorance, not on anything fundamental.
- lidHanteyk 7y agoSorry, but what is a particle?