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> We have no proof (and it's probably impossible to do so), that anything we've found is fundamental. this entire discussion is fully outside of my knowledge w
by adamrezich 4y ago
> We have no proof (and it's probably impossible to do so), that anything we've found is fundamental.
this entire discussion is fully outside of my knowledge wheelhouse but why should we believe that the universe is anything less than infinitely fractal at the micro scale? like you said, how would we even know if something is fundamental?
- platz 4y ago> why should we believe that the universe is anything less than infinitely fractal at the micro scale And what basis does that claim rest on
- adamrezich 4y agosheer intuition based upon the adage "you don't know what you don't know", repeated incorrect assumptions that we've finally discovered fundamental building blocks of reality, and lack of capacity for imagination (sorry—I tried!) for what the discovery of absolutely positively provably fundamental building blocks of reality could even potentially look like
- platz 4y agoI disagree. Not that you're wrong but that you're right.
- adamrezich 4y ago???
- astrange 4y ago> repeated incorrect assumptions that we've finally discovered fundamental building blocks of reality Physics has had the other problem for a while now - they know the current theory is wrong, but they can't find any evidence to disprove it, and it's wasting generations of scientists and particle accelerators to do it.
- Zamicol 4y agoThe Planck constant isn't infinite.