On 8/27/2019 9:01 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 5:55:36 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
I came across a good article that is apposite to the discussion in
this thread. Arnold Neumaier has an article on virtual particles at:
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/vacuum-fluctuation-myth/
<https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/vacuum-fluctuation-myth/>
where he looks at the origin of much of the common mythology
surrounding the idea of vacuum fluctuations and virtual particles.
People should read this and take the lessons to heart -- all of
this mythology arose from well-meaning, but ultimately mis-guided,
attempts to explain the mysteries of quantum mechanics to lay
people. The result was enduring confusion, that now affects even
professional physicists.
Bruce
Very interesting fellow. Interesting article. I was intrigued reading
the link there to his biography of himself being math to applied math
ending up in computing and dabbling in physics. Sounded like me!
Then
Two years after my Ph.D., my formerly atheistic world view changed and
I became a Christian. I got convinced that there is a very powerful
God <http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~neum/sciandf/eng/arms.html> who
created the Universe, who controls what appears to us as chance, and
who is interested in each of us individually. I understood (with
Galilei, and later Newton and Maxwell) that God had written the book
of nature in the language of mathematics. As a result of these
insights, one of my life goals became to understand all the important
applications of mathematics in other fields of science, engineering,
and ordinary life. It is a challenge that keeps me learning all my life.
Well, if he can convince Christians that learning mathematics is the
road to salvation, more power to him.
Brent
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/interview-mathematician-physicist-arnold-neumaier/
@philipthrift
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