On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 9:58:37 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 9:45:21 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 15 Jun 2019, at 19:37, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 12:10:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 6/15/2019 12:29 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> I've basically lived my life believing what I want, I think. >>> I'm not trying to *convince* anyone of anything. >>> >>> One thing I might try to convince people of: >>> >>> *Physics is fiction.* >>> >>> Vic Stenger would have said "Physics is models". >>> >>> There are always alternative models, and new ones likely coming in the >>> future. >>> >>> To find *reality in a model* (to make truth claims in the vocabulary of >>> a model) is a form of religious fundamentalism. >>> >>> >>> You say you're not trying to convince anyone of anything, but you >>> repeatedly slap pejorative labels on other viewpoints. You use them like >>> Trump uses nick names. I avoids actually making an argument against them >>> while disparaging them. >>> >>> So in this specific instance: Where do you look for reality? Or do you >>> suppose there is no reality. If you trained a neural network so that it >>> could produce all the predictions about physics problems that the community >>> of physicists do, would it be just as good as the theories it replaces? >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> >> >> I don't criticize other theories. Any theory anyone want's top pursue is >> is fine. >> >> It's just the Physics Gestapo I criticize. >> >> >> It is not physics Gestaop. Only physicalist gestapo, or the usual >> confusion (Aristotle basic philosophy) between physics and metaphysics, >> which is incompatible with Mechanism. >> >> Bruno >> > > > > The Physics Gestapo apparently treats lightly those who say matter comes > out of arithmetic. :) > > @philipthrift >
I can't remember the moniker on this, but there is a signature of an email discussion gone bad when people start invoking Nazis. There is no Gestapo here. The problem is frankly you are most likely wrong; these sorts of deformations of QM have a consistent history of not working. Just because people such as Price keep banging their heads on this does not mean it is alive --- more like beating a dead horse. Please stop using Nazi references. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/7b9c9085-9124-4aa7-8282-94339c0d73f0%40googlegroups.com.
