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by zmgsabst 945 days ago
Well yeah, we’re finite beings so the things “like us” tend to be finite as well — what we study in physics.

A real number is what happens when you reach the end of an infinitely long light ray — the sum of such a journey. We don’t experience things like that.

Yet things like spinors seem to accurately model particle physics, hinting that there’s more to the story.