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- From: daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough)
- Subject: Re: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem (was: Continuos vs. discrete models)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.124233.24312@oracorp.com>
- Organization: ORA Corporation
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:42:33 GMT
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- columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes:
-
- >In short: there may be good reasons for radically changing the foundations
- >of physics (and there may not-- pace, defenders of the status quo(ntum)!),
- >but the Loewenheim-Skolem theorem is not one of them.
-
- LS doesn't demand that we adopt Paul Budnik's discretized physics, but
- I believe it gives us permission to do so. LS shows that there can
- never be a demonstration that space-time must be continuous, because
- there is no property of an uncountable set that doesn't also hold of
- some countable set.
-
- Daryl McCullough
- ORA Corp.
- Ithaca, NY
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