Dynamically_Linked comments on Relative Configuration Space - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 May 2008 09:25AM

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Comment author: Dynamically_Linked 26 May 2008 05:52:04PM 5 points [-]

But if you could learn to visualize the relative configuration space, then, so long as you thought in terms of those elements of reality, it would no longer be imaginable that Mach's Principle could be false.

If one learned to think only in terms the relative configuration space, it would also become impossible to imagine that parity violation could be possible, since the left-hand and right-hand versions of a system have the same relative distances. Yet the weak nuclear force does violate parity.