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ezrast | 1 year ago

What does "impossible" mean to you if not that a thing and it's consequences can never be observed?

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renewiltord|1 year ago

Impossible means it does not happen, not that it does not happen only when we look. Just because we can't see it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. After all, as the comment I replied to pointed out, other galaxies can have different constants. We have to be humble and admit we just don't know.

jiggawatts|1 year ago

The problem with these type of arguments is rigorously defining “we” and “look”.

Turns out that our gaze has no effect on anything and we’re uninteresting squishy bags of mostly water as far as physical processes are concerned.

ezrast|1 year ago

This seems like a distinction without a difference, since we can never positively categorize any unobserved phenomenon as impossible (vs merely unobservable). To me, it seems ontologically cleaner to treat existence and observability as the same thing. shrug