On 10/8/2019 2:41 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:35 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>> wrote:On 10/8/2019 12:10 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote:I watched a little of Sean's talk at Google. It is a very slick marketing exercise -- reminded me of a con man, or a snake oil salesman. Too slick by half.What do you think he's selling?His book? Actually, he is selling a particular approach to QM, and claiming, in no uncertain terms, that his is the only "true" approach.
No. He explicitly says (at 14:45) he's going to explain the interpretation he favors but there are others which he discusses in his book.
I take particular exception to his claim that MWI is the SWE and nothing else. He elides the many additional assumptions that he has to make to get correspondence with experience, but derides other approaches for making assumptions! That is just dishonest.
What additional assumptions do you mean?
I think Carroll is a good speaker, a good popularizer, and a nice guy.He is certainly a polished speaker, and is probably a nice guy. But that does not make him right.I feel fortunate to have him representing physics to the public. He is not evangelizing for some particular interpretation and he recognizes that there are alternative interpretations of QM even though he favors MWI. Maybe so in his book, but that was not apparent in the lecture. Also, he's the only scientist who debated William Lane Craig and won by every measure.Bully for him. Debating William Lane Craig is not the height of science......
No but several scientists have not done well at it, including Vic. Brent -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9193a10a-212d-0eab-867f-4c439229c621%40verizon.net.
