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timtyler comments on P(X = exact value) = 0: Is it really counterintuitive? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: timtyler 30 July 2011 09:57:03AM 0 points [-]

Then of course there is quantum physics, where it is literally impossible for any physical object, including point objects, to have a definite coordinate with arbitrary precision.

Conventionally, in the multiverse, everything is precisely somewhere. What is difficult is finding out exactly where things are.

Comment author: hairyfigment 30 July 2011 06:01:36PM 0 points [-]

How so? We can regard each point within a cloud of amplitude as a 'separate world' in one sense, but I understood that points less than a certain 'distance' away from each other will affect each others' futures in a meaningful way. I thought there exists no fact of the matter one second later as to which of those 'worlds' I came from.

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