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I assume you mean in the physical sense? What if you get down to the quantum level? You don't have a straight line in the Euclidean sense any longer.
by drdec 5y ago
I assume you mean in the physical sense?
What if you get down to the quantum level? You don't have a straight line in the Euclidean sense any longer.
- voxl 5y agoYeah instead you have probability theory baked right in, real numbers and all!
- drdec 5y agoYou are conflating a mathematical model with reality, begging the question as it were.
- voxl 5y agoSure, otherwise you're just solipsistic, we have to assume things exist, it's how you make progress. If you think quantum is "the real stuff that exists" then you should assume, for now, that the model actually models something, and our best guess is that it's merely probability theory.
- sorokod 5y agoDo you question the existence of triangles and their mathematical properties?
- drdec 5y agoAbsolutely. There's no reason to believe space is Euclidean, in fact, relativity says it is curved. Quantum mechanics says that it is not infinitely divisible.
- gsinclair 5y agoIt depends what you mean by “existence”. Mathematical triangles are ideal conceptions that exist only in our minds.