Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 08:19:38 01/05/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 10:57:17, Rafael Andrist wrote: >On January 05, 2003 at 10:43:54, Sune Fischer wrote: > >>On January 05, 2003 at 09:42:37, Alessandro Damiani wrote: >> >>>Physics is all about approximation. Nothing more, nothing less. >> >>Nonsense. > >Of course it is. All theories so far have been approximations and even for the >simplest problems one makes allways several assumptions and approximations. For problem solving you make simplifying assumptions or else you can't solve the equations, but don't blame the theories for that. >But I think that comparing Chess to Physics is a bad idea. I think so too. >Chess is well defined >and it is theoreticaly solvable (only finite number of positions). It is more >similar to Maths resp. to algebraic structures - this depends of course from the >point of view: focussing on the positions or on search trees. I think the discussion was more about advanced fields and whether progress becomes harder or not, physics was just an abstract comparision. Anyway, we may have drifted a tad off topic here ;) -S. >Rafael B. Andrist
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