3 ms·
But haven't real numbers served us pretty well in application as well, for most of the time? Modern physics is anything but intuitive in my opinion. Maybe real
by derbOac 3y ago
But haven't real numbers served us pretty well in application as well, for most of the time?
Modern physics is anything but intuitive in my opinion. Maybe reality isn't well described by real numbers, or maybe it is; but my sense is the reason why physicists have used real numbers is because they've worked pretty well up until a certain relatively recent point, when other intuitions about reality have started to fall apart as well.
- samus 3y agoPart of the problem is that they maybe work too well. A lot of particle theory is model fitting without probiding us new insights into a possible underlying reality. Or something that would force a paradigm shift. Real evidence of something completely contradictive to our existing theories would be a dream come true.