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TL;DR A reformulation of physics based on intuitionist mathematics seems to aid human intuition, makes no impact on calculations.
by Koshkin 7y ago
TL;DR A reformulation of physics based on intuitionist mathematics seems to aid human intuition, makes no impact on calculations.
- ineedasername 7y agoIt might make no impact on calculations (I'm not really qualified to say that) but it seems like it would make a big impact on epistemology and determinism. I think?
- madhadron 7y agoNot really. The math is chosen to fit the physics, remember, not the physics chosen to fit the math.
- ineedasername 7y agoI think you're right about that for determinism, but the acceptance of intuitionist math requires a different epistemology. It is literally a different set of assumptions on what is knowable and what is true.
- empath75 7y agoNone of our instruments are infinite precision, nor are very many physical constants, so it sort of makes sense that tossing out real numbers doesn’t make any difference.