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pronyesterday at 12:48 AM1 replyview on HN

Well, the physical universe will still exist, but I don't think that physics - the scientific study of said universe - will become sort of meaningless, I would think?


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Terr_yesterday at 12:59 AM

Why meaningless? Imperfect knowledge can still be useful, and ultimately that's the only kind we can ever have about anything.

"We could learn to sail the oceans and discover new lands and transport cargo cheaply... But in a few centuries we'll discover we were wrong and the Earth isn't really a sphere and tides are extra-complex so I guess there's no point."

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