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by woopsn 22 days ago
A key thing about the undecidability problem wrt physics is preparation of the initial state. In math and computer science it is relatively straightforward to prepare such problems now (though this represented an enormous leap conceptually), but the "undecidability" of all physical problems relies on construction of materials that are clearly unconstructable - systems of infinite negentropy (eg Turing machines), infinite mass (the lattice), bespoke local interactions etc. Problems standing in the way of physics decidability are typically chaos, far from equilibrium mechanics, elementary SNR considerations and so forth, not problems of logic.
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In physics we don't talk about decidability, but solvability.