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> If numbers are finite and limited in their precision, then nature itself is inherently imprecise, and thus unpredictable. Is this not what Planck's constant
by bill_from_tampa 6y ago
> If numbers are finite and limited in their precision, then nature itself is inherently imprecise, and thus unpredictable.
Is this not what Planck's constant implies? We can only know position and/or motion to a certain degree, and not exactly? Does not quantum mechanics already include this idea?
- Koshkin 6y agoHow does discreetness imply imprecision and randomness? If anything, it should indicate some degree of certainty.
- hinoki 6y agoIt depends on your rules for rounding I think.
- akira2501 6y agoI'm an amateur, but I like to think about this: If spacetime is quantized, then the speed of light would be 1 planck length / 1 planck time. Assuming spacetime is actually quantized to that metric, we can then ask: How does something move at 2/3c? Or two discrete planck lenghts in 3 discrete planck times? In one instance it could be: t=0,x=0, t=1,x=0, t=2,x=1, t=3,x=2 It could also do: t=0,x=0, t=1,x=1, t=2,x=1, t=3,x=2. It implies a hidden variable, or at the very least a hidden phase of some sort. All sorts of oddness abounds when you consider all velocities are then quantized fractional values of c.
- tines 6y agoBut then your 2/3c is an average, it's not the real speed of the object at any actual instant.
- Ono-Sendai 6y agoIf you can have real numbers at each spacetime point (as opposed to boolean values) then you can easily get a speed less than c. This is similar to simulating the wave equation on a grid on a computer.
- viklove 6y agoYou're thinking of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle