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by canjobear 1751 days ago
> Of course exactitude exists. For example, two electrons have exactly the same charge. A photon has exactly 0 charge.

Aren't claims like this unscientific according to your standard? You will never be able to measure that two electrons have the same charge to infinite decimal precision. You might have a theory that says they should have the same charge, but you won't be able to test that theory to infinite precision either.

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Hmm, actually you may be right. I'm not entirely sure how powerful the 'requirement' in QM for these quantities to be quantized is though, but most likely you are right - the theory wouldn't be able to distinguish between identical charges and veeeeery slightly different charges.