How to Reconcile Randomness with Physicists' Belief that Every Theory Is Approximate: Informal Knowledge Is Needed

Authors

Ricardo Alvarez, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Nick Sims, El Paso Community CollegeFollow
Christian Servin, El Paso Community CollegeFollow
Martine Ceberio, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

10-2019

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-19-102

Abstract

In this paper, we show that physicists' intuition about randomness is not fully consistent with their belief that every theory is only approximate. We also prove that there is no formal way to reconcile these two intuitions, this reconciliation has to be informal. Thus, there are fundamental reasons why informal knowledge is needed for describing the real world.