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Mh, but I thought it was widely held that there are things such as the Planck constant which constitute bounds on divisibility. There rather seems to be no indi
by oezi 4y ago
Mh, but I thought it was widely held that there are things such as the Planck constant which constitute bounds on divisibility. There rather seems to be no indication to believe conversely that the universe works on real numbers. Which makes at least intuitive sense that there isn't anything which contains infinite information.
- civilized 4y agoThere is such a thing as the Planck constant. It doesn't constitute a bound on the divisibility of space. It is a length scale below which we do not expect our current physical theories to make good predictions. See https://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-11-01_NutshellReadMore.html https://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/archive/archive_2013/today13-... > Which makes at least intuitive sense that there isn't anything which contains infinite information. There are no real numbers outside of human beings' minds. The information in a number, real or otherwise, is a theoretical mathematical concept from human minds for which there is no evidence in nature. There is no definitive evidence that nature confirms to either continuous or discrete math at the smallest scales, but for now, if you look at theoretical physics papers, you will see integrals and derivatives, not sums and differences.