> Physics works perfectly well even when you replace infinite with a relatively large number Has this actually been studied? I reckon you'd run into problems p

> Physics works perfectly well even when you replace infinite with a relatively large number Has this actually been studied? I reckon you'd run into problems pretty quickly if you tried to impose a "maximum" allowed number (call it N). For example, you might set N equal to the number of quarks in the universe. But now you have no way to represent the number of different configurations of quarks, taking into account their possible quantum states (i.e. taking the factorial). But you also have a time dimension (which I assume you're splitting into discrete chunks to avoid infinitesimals). To decsribe the quantum state over time requires your previous estimate multiplied by the number of time points. And so on... ad infinitum!