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What's baffling to me is the idea that nature manipulates numbers but not irrational ones. This only makes sense if you assume nature must be a digital compute
by civilized 4y ago
What's baffling to me is the idea that nature manipulates numbers but not irrational ones.
This only makes sense if you assume nature must be a digital computer.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoWell, a lot of the stuff that goes wonky when you get to ultra-small scales looks an awful lot like the type of quantization errors you get when you try to model things in a digital computer. Does that mean that it is a digital computer? No. But it's reminiscent of it.
- civilized 4y agoMaybe in pop quantum mechanics but not in the real thing.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoThere's nothing "pop" about it. On a human scale, a soap bubble may look perfectly spherical. But it isn't. The closer you look at it, the lumpier it gets.
- civilized 4y agoI don't know how you get from "lumpy" to "looks like quantization error".