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Except the Bohr model of atom (with the so called "old QM"), which is clear but not true.vanhees71 said:Well, then Bohr definitely wrote only about true things.
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Oh sure, butter me up with something I won't be able to follow. I'm holding out for comprehension.Demystifier said:What if I tell you that I have a theory that solves all these questions at once?
OK. let's see it, maybe it will work as a soporific.
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I tend to view physics as finite, in the sense that any experiment only has a finite number of outcomes. The mathematics and theoretical physics extrapolates this to countable and uncountable infinities. A classical example is modelling a body as a continuous mass distribution, even though the physics is a large, finite number of particles.Demystifier said:
In QM you can practically only carry out a finite number of measurements, so there is always a mathematical extrapolation to a continuous wave function defined on an uncountable set of points.
The extent to which the underlying reality is infinite is perhaps unknowable, as we will only ever have a finite set of data.
In particular, I can't see that the axiom of choice would be relevant in a physical situation.