Bruno Marchal skrev:
> On 09 Nov 2008, at 20:29, Brent Meeker wrote:
>
>
>> Many physicists think that an ultimate theory would be
>> discrete,
>>
> This is highly implausible, assuming comp. I know that if we want
> quantize gravitation, then space and time should be quantized, but
> then I hope other things will remain continuous, like the statistics
> (hoping it is enough).
> But for the reason above, the first persons cannot escape the
> "feeling" or the "appearances" of continua (assuming mech.).
>
You do not need anything continuous. When you look at a movie, you are
shown 24 pictures every second, but you feel like it is a continuous
movie. But in reality it is just 24 discrete events every second.
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Torgny Tholerus
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