A Higgs Boson particle walks into a church, but the preacher says "You are a fake! A disgrace! You call yourself the 'God particle' when there is only one true God! Blasphemy! You don't exist!" The Higgs Boson replies "Well if I don't exist, how can you have mass?"
@Danu Yesterday I thought I would have had a nice discussion on the use of the full axiom of choice in physics; sadly you started the discussion but never responded...
@StanShunpike : boom boom! However the Higgs mechanism is said to be responsible for only 1% of the mass of matter. And it isn't responsible for the mass of the Higgs boson. Check out Matt Strassler's article.
@Danu :-D ok got it...Unfortunately, I am afraid it could depend on it. Anyways, a lot of mathematical things may change in a world with or without uncountable choice; how many of them are physical I do not know. As I said, the algebra of CCR is one of those non-separable spaces very relevant in physics, and maybe a physical necessity for uncountable choice
@Danu You should look at the constructivst/intuitionistic mathematics then...there is a book by bishop where he reproduces a part of standard analysis by means of constructivist proofs. No axiom of choice there...just constructing mathematical objects from scratch :-D
@Danu Me neither; but I like infinite (dimensional, uncountable, etc ) sets very much ;-) In logic and proof theory, if it was for me I would even allow for proofs of uncountable length :-D
I see suggested edits need to be reviewed for them to get applied on the post. How many such reviews are needed for every edit? Does this anyhow depend on the post(question/answer), or the reputation of the asker/respondant, or the reputation of the reviewer?
I recently found an edit of mine alr...
I was certainly in favor of it when it was announced. Since then, I feel like I need to know if a question appeared in the sidebar before I can interpret its score.
Yeah. More voting would be a good thing. I try, too, but only when I remember.