Re: The Usual Heinlein Thing

On Mar 6, 3:24 pm, thro...@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop) wrote:
:: You should try reading the thread before leaping wildly to conclusions.

: "dwight.thi...@xxxxxxxxx" <dwight.thi...@xxxxxxxxx>
: I did, idiot.

Apparently, in reading the thread, you missed several references like these:
(especially the latter two of these)

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note I said "EXACT" location, "EXACT" velocities and energies.
I.e., no error anywhere in the system at start, as opposed to the
real-world situation, where you simply cannot know those things to
zero error even for ONE particle

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my basic proposition was to assume I *could* know all that. It's
irrelevant that I can't actually do that, since I've already
conceded that I can't do it in this universe.

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even in a classical universe

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You were postulating someone who knew the positions and motions of
everything exactly in a Newtonian universe.

Therefore, pointing out quantum effects is rather beside the point.
One might almost say, irrelevant to anybody who's read the thread,
since they'd been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Possibly, you were assuming "presume I know what I can't know in a quantum
universe, but nevertheless the universe is quantum so it will be undone
the next instant", or similar, and missed the subsequent clarifications.

Or put annother way, yes, one could say indeterminacy of outcome is
somehow unrelated to uncertainty, so even if you solve the one you've
got the other, but thing is, there's neither of those in a classical
and/or newtonian universe.

Wayne Throop thro...@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw

Sigh. READ THE DAMN QUOTE.

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In any case, isn't it true that in point of fact you wouldn't
actually need the universe of real numbers to perform Mentor's work?
IIRC, there's a minimum size of spacetime itself (my brain's throwing
up something called "Planck length"?) somewhere down around 10^-42
meters? Which would mean that down at that level, it would be a
pixelated (well, voxelated) universe, with a finite number of possible
values for any movement, acceleration, etc., the particle could
undergo.

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Note, very explicitly, the term "Planck Length". How is it derived?
By manipulating the fundamental constants, one of which is - get this
- Planck's constant, which is fundamental to quantum mechanics,
quantum indeterminacy, etc. No Plancks' constant means no Planck
Length.

This isn't hard. Really.
.

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