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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by tic_tac on Friday March 13, 2020 @07:32AM (#22566427)
But ratios only express rational numbers, if we had to express location in a 3D continuum it's almost guaranteed that it would be represented by an irrational number.
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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by tylerjwilk00 on Friday March 13, 2020 @08:37AM (#22566750)
Fair point and I don't necessarily disagree. I don't like the consequences of superdeterminism, just playing devil's advocate. If we exchange simple ratios for fractals we could have compute based infinite precision. Precision would just be a matter of scale of the measurement.
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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by tic_tac on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:52AM (#22568227)
So if there is superdeterminism, meaning positions are absolutely determined, either there is minimum scale in the universe (discrete universe) or somehow the universe computes with infinities.

Both are absurd concepts! When probing the ultimate depths of reality like this there are no good answers.

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