>>11168247>>11168266Consider a stick. If you measure a stick with an ordinary 30cm/12in ruler, you may find that its length is ~26.4cm because your ruler has a millimeter marking on it, or maybe ~26.45 if it's in the middle of the milimeter marking. But you can't see with much more exactitude than that. You have to look closer with some kind of machine and more sophisticated instrumentation to find its length to more decimal points. Ultimately you will find that the idea of it having a length is sort of bound within a snapshot of time, because in the course of handling it small particles are brushed off or rearranged. And when you have to look really close and with extremely delicate handling, you will find yourself uncertain of its 'exact' length, and no amount of information is sufficient to describe it correctly.
Would it even be possible, with all the processing power this galaxy could fuel, to calculate the 'exact' perimeter of the coastline of Britain?
