Fundamental reality: Hilbert space

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PeroK said:
Die Glaube is immer maechtiger als der Zweifel.
And rightly so. Without an implementation to carry out mathematics, it is just a collection of true statements, nothing happening.
 
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A. Neumaier said:
And rightly so. Without an implementation to carry out mathematics, it is just a collection of true statements, nothing happening.
I think the quotation was intended as ironic resignation, rather than a celebration of dogma!
 
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PeroK said:
I think the quotation was intended as ironic resignation, rather than a celebration of dogma!
Why should nothing happen? Happen in what sense? Can you give an example? Is it like the central dogma of biology?
 
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