Neil DeGrasse Tyson headed down same loony road as Carl Sagan?
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 10:23:50 +0100, Martin Brown
wrote:
Conjugate variables in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is the most
obvious counter example. You cannot simultaneously know the momentum and
position of a particle in phase space to arbitrary precision.
Yes, but that's a triviality.
No. It isn't.
It is because it isn't what I'm talking about as "knowability". There
are certainly "things" we can't know. That's not important. The
question is are there rules of nature we can't know? I don't see
evidence of that. I think our understanding of nature can be complete.
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