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Physics is shit

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-03 11:27

So you have this gravity law. But does particle attract itself?

I.e. does it work like (mapcar (lambda (X) (gravity X Xs)) Xs) or X should be excluded from Xs, before gravity applies?

Name: >>23 2012-02-04 15:56

>>24
I've only posted once in this thread, so don't assume I'm >>11 or someone else. I did say that some models are easier to work with, even if they may not match the territory exactly, but I also said that ontologically, you don't need to posit too much beyond computation (Turing-emulable) and there doesn't seem to be a way to show an actual continuum existing physically. However, ontology and epistemology are different things and if a model is useful, make practical use of it, just one should be careful and not confuse that one approximation with reality.

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