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    It is not the case that No physical experiment can detect a trajectory passing through an irrational rather than a nearby rational coordinate, undermining the causal-explanatory claim.

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    • 1.Mathematical properties of trajectories (irrational vs rational) can causally matter even if measurements can't distinguish them perfectly.
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    • 2.Undetectable differences don't undermine causal explanation; light's wave-particle duality involves unobservable simultaneous properties yet explains behavior.
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    • 3.Trajectories through irrational coordinates might affect downstream physics (chaotic systems, limit behavior) in ways experiments eventually reveal.
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    • 1.All physical measurements have finite precision, making irrational vs nearby rational coordinates empirically indistinguishable in principle.
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    • 2.If two trajectories produce identical experimental predictions, positing one over the other violates parsimony and lacks causal content.
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    • 3.Physics describes observables; undetectable differences between irrational and rational paths suggest the distinction lacks physical meaning.
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