On 10/22/2014 7:12 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:30 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>>
> Quantum mechanics assumes real and complex numbers.
Quantum mechanics works very well, but every time we've tested it with experiment the
values we put into it and the values we measure after the experiment have only had
values at best a dozen or so places to the right of the decimal point. Are
we justified in extrapolating from that that it would work just as well if there were a
infinite number if digits to the right of the decimal point? I honestly don't know.
I think it's just a convenience for reasoning about rational numbers. But then I also
think rational numbers are just part of our model of the world.
Brent
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