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> If it really is an example of an uncomputable physical process

I guess first you'd have to prove that there are physical processes are actually continuous, and that this continuum is genuinely the continuum of the reals.

It is already known that a computer with access to real numbers with infinite precision can perform hypercomputation, I'm not sure how much this is relevant, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_computation

parent roywiggins 2 years ago

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