dlthomas comments on Configurations and Amplitude - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 19 April 2012 02:41:13AM 0 points [-]

Relativity works describing reality, so companies are making a killing using it to build accurate GPS devices. A bit more roundabout than some of the others, but doesn't seem "wrong".

Comment author: Desrtopa 19 April 2012 03:08:02AM 1 point [-]

But unlike all the others, if Relativity weren't true, they'd still be able to do that. They'd just do it by not incorporating the predictions of Relativity.

If electricity worked by classical models, we wouldn't be building semiconductor circuits differently, we wouldn't be able to build them at all. All the others could be implemented for initiatives that would be possible if they were real, but impossible otherwise, so Relativity is the odd one out.

Comment author: dlthomas 20 April 2012 01:25:53AM 0 points [-]

There are doubtless other models by which electricity could hypothetically work that would allow circuits that do interesting things. I don't see where the focus on specific "classical models" is drawn from.