Lumifer comments on Open thread, Jul. 11 - Jul. 17, 2016 - All

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Comment author: Lumifer 12 July 2016 02:26:43PM 1 point [-]

As far as I can see, the experiment has shown that what was considered to be the lower bound is actually not.

However I don't understand how the claim of "no lower bound at all" necessarily follows. For all we know there is just a different, lower (lower bound).

Comment author: HungryHobo 12 July 2016 02:46:37PM *  0 points [-]

I found it odd as well but I think it's because it implies that the theoretical reason for that lower bound may be invalid.

There's likely going to turn out to be a different theoretical lower bound for some other reason but right now we don't have that theoretical reason.