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Comment by j2kun

We don't know that the physical world has infinite precision. In particular, time doesn't even seem to be continuous as far as we can tell (cf. Planck constant). And we think there's a finite amount of mass in the universe, so how could we encode arbitrarily large natural numbers (as is required to model Peano arithmetic)?
parent j2kun 12 years ago

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