Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
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Naval Ravikant
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🗓️ 12 April 2021
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| 0:00.0 | There goes my solution for Zeno's paradox, which is before you can get all the way somewhere, |
| 0:04.1 | you have to get halfway there and before you can get halfway, you have to get a quarter |
| 0:06.8 | of the way there and therefore you'll never get there. |
| 0:09.3 | One way to get past that is to say even a series of infinite things can have a finite |
| 0:13.2 | sum. |
| 0:14.2 | Just run the infinite series and sum it and we learn pretty early on that converges. |
| 0:18.3 | But another thought I had was that you have to cover a minimum distance, a plank length |
| 0:22.0 | and therefore you will get there. |
| 0:23.3 | It's a finite series of steps, but you're saying we just don't know it. |
| 0:25.9 | So if the laws of physics say that we can cover one meter in a certain time period, then |
| 0:30.3 | that's exactly what we'll do. |
| 0:31.8 | And our current understanding of the laws of physics say precisely that. |
| 0:34.9 | So Zeno's paradox is resolved simply by saying that we can cover this space in this amount |
| 0:40.8 | of time. |
| 0:41.8 | It's silent on whether or not space is infinitely divisible when someone asks you, is |
| 0:46.8 | space infinitely divisible? |
| 0:48.9 | Then I would say yes it is and they might turn around and say how do you know? |
| 0:52.1 | And I would say general relativity. |
| 0:53.7 | How do I know that's true? |
| 0:54.7 | I don't know that it's true. |
| 0:56.4 | However, it is the best explanation that we presently have of space time. |
| 1:02.5 | And then they might get into a discussion about well, if it's infinitely divisible, then |
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