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Ep 14: Ch 8, Part 2: "A Window on Infinity"

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The Laws of Physics Are Not Absolutely Necessary Truths

Zeno's mistake has been made various other mathematical abstractions too. In general terms, the mistake is to confuse an abstract attribute with e physical one of the same name. Just as the same set of universes can be packed with astrophysis when measured under one set of laws of physics, but of almost none when measured under another. Our knowledge of those laws are not those laws. The knowledge and the thing in reality are two quite different things.

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