Psy-Kosh: I have never heard of anyone ever successfully formulating quantum (or classical) mechanics without the full spectrum of real numbers. You can’t even have simple things, like right triangles with non-integer side length, without irrational numbers to “fill in the gaps”. Any finite-set formulation of QM would look very different from what we understand now.
Psy-Kosh: I have never heard of anyone ever successfully formulating quantum (or classical) mechanics without the full spectrum of real numbers. You can’t even have simple things, like right triangles with non-integer side length, without irrational numbers to “fill in the gaps”. Any finite-set formulation of QM would look very different from what we understand now.