Abstract
While there is no evident reason for believing that the world was anyhow made of discrete parts but overwhelming evidence for a rather continuous evolution, signal processing is superior if based on discrete values. This seeming contradiction gave rise to an investigation on how analog and digital approaches relate to each other and to reality. Three interrelated mathematical pillars of physics were found to suffer from unjustified generalization: Points instead of endpoints, once and twice redundant equivalences. A realistic interpretation of abstraction-made ambiguity sheds new light on quantization and apparent symmetries.
Eckard Blumschein