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Turing_Machine
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The Making of a Prophet
> Well, we don't really know if nature/reality has an infinite precision.
Certainly just about everything appears to be quantized at some level.
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This is a popular myth, but it isn't true. Some very specific things in physics, like atomic energy levels, are quantized, and everything else is continuous. And atomic energy quantization emerges from a continuous model of space and time.
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Certainly just about everything appears to be quantized at some level.