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enkid | 1 year ago

Just because you can't record something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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mannykannot|1 year ago

This brings to mind one of my favorite quotes:

The Schrödinger wave-function is expressed in a unit which is the square root of an inverse cubic meter. This fact alone makes clear that the wave-function is an abstraction, forever hidden from our view. Nobody will ever measure directly the square root of an inverse cubic meter.

Freeman Dyson, Why is Maxwell’s Theory so hard to understand?

https://www.clerkmaxwellfoundation.org/DysonFreemanArticle.p...

asdasdsddd|1 year ago

Sure but i can invent infinitely many unfalsifiable claims that mean nothing

lisper|1 year ago

Who said anything about recording? What would the subjective experience of measuring something with infinite precision possibly be like?

JumpCrisscross|1 year ago

> would require somehow recording an infinite amount of information...

>> Just because you can't record something...

>>> Who said anything about recording?