Saturday, June 11, 2011

Reality is Analog

The FQXi Essay Contest - Is Reality Digital or Analog? has now announced its winners.

A lot of poeple seem to think that Quantum mechanics
requires a discrete reality. It predicts that certain measurements are discrete, but the underlying theory is continuous.
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