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Re:The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-ti... by 8bitsrule on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:33PM (#19670400)
Science is not always aware that it has axioms. Historically, absolute time, absolute space, Euclidean geometry, stuff like that. No place for, say, the qualia which motivate it ... beauty, elegance, the like.
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Re:The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-ti... by whatshisface on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:38PM (#19670433)
Euclidian geometry was literally based on axioms from day one.
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Re:The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-ti... by coldtea on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @03:32AM (#19671794)
What the parent means is science doesn't always know it has implicit axioms.

And that Euclidean geometry itself is only one possible geometry, but took us several millennia (until e.g. Lobachevsky) to find out -- it was taken as a kind of axiom itself, like absolute time etc.

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