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[Ahem A Rivet's Shot]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:26:53 +0000
The Natural Philosopher <tnp at invalid.invalid> wrote:

> A philosophical statement
> 
> There is reality. This is what physicists and engineers deal with.

	Engineers deal with models that they hope correspond to reality but
don't always (cf. Tacoma Narrows bridge). Physicists attempt to build models
that correspond to reality but don't always (cf. contradictions between
general relativity and quantum theory). Then there are chaotic systems and
emergent phenomena which so far have proven extremely resistant to
modelling.

	Nobody can prove that reality exists (cf. solipsism etc) but it is
the most useful assumption we can make. Even with that assumption nobody can
prove that reality is logically consistent - it might all be the whim of
God you can't prove that it isn't - but it is the most useful assumption we
can make and it hasn't (yet) been disproved.

	The core unspoken (usually) theorems of physics are that reality
exists and that it is logically consistent. If you can prove either of them
I expect you're due a Nobel and an FRS at least.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith
Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
Host: Beautiful Theory meet Inconvenient Fact
Obit: Beautiful Theory died today of factual inconsistency