26 points | by unprovable 2 hours ago ago
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"What is a Hilbert space?"
-- David Hilbert.
The nice additional reading is that you could even know what a Hilbert space is, but not what is a Hilbert space.
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Or, there is no time. Awareness traverses the grand graph of possibility.
Disclaimer: total armchair philosophy.
Given infinite time, is it possible to randomly draw a rational (instead of an irrational) from the interval [0, 1]? And if so, is it possible infinite times?
"Randomly" drawing anything from [0,1] is already quite difficult.
Finally, a well-formed question to which the answer "42 (times)" is a possible solution.
Certainly! Probability 0 does not mean impossible.
"I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space anymore." - John von Neumann
"What is a Hilbert space?"
-- David Hilbert.
The nice additional reading is that you could even know what a Hilbert space is, but not what is a Hilbert space.
[flagged]
Or, there is no time. Awareness traverses the grand graph of possibility.
Disclaimer: total armchair philosophy.
Given infinite time, is it possible to randomly draw a rational (instead of an irrational) from the interval [0, 1]? And if so, is it possible infinite times?
"Randomly" drawing anything from [0,1] is already quite difficult.
Finally, a well-formed question to which the answer "42 (times)" is a possible solution.
Certainly! Probability 0 does not mean impossible.
"I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe absolutely in Hilbert space anymore." - John von Neumann