[FOM] The irrelevance of Friedman's polemics and results

Eray Ozkural examachine at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 17:58:40 EST 2006


On 2/2/06, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> Practicing physicist seem to act as if every set of real numbers is
> measurable, for example.

I believe this is an interesting point. So why do physicists think
of R as an adequate model for "real" space geometry
at all? Is it just an accident of history or do they seriously believe
that unmeasurable things exist?

Best Regards,

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Eray Ozkural (exa), PhD candidate.  Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
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