On Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 3:18:47 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 10/12/2019 3:41 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 11, 2019 at 9:36:49 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 10/11/2019 6:58 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >>> But that's not absurd, because it is possible to have a radioactive atom >>> that is isolated from all environment and other degrees of freedom and so >>> it might exist in a superposition. >>> >> >> But if you amplify the micro superposition and throw in a cat, you get an >> absurdity. Maybe Schroedinger was *also* trying to show that the >> interpretation of *micro* superposition is not correct. AG >> >> >> Yes, I think he did. But he was wrong about that. Bohr saved the theory >> by declaring that there was a classical world and a quantum world, which >> worked pretty well because everybody's intuition about the Heisenberg cut >> was about the same. >> >> Brent >> > > I don't see how Bohr saved the theory (of superposition?) by making that > declaration. Isn't there general agreement today that everything is > quantum? AG > > > There is now, but "Shut and calculate" produced huge advancements in > understanding physics, chemistry, and biology and produced the solid-state > electronics revolution - without metaphysics getting in the way. > > Brent >
The "calculate" methods (actually *programs* now, found in GitHub, etc.) are in-themselves interpretations of what they model, and are the only interpretation that really matter. @philipthrift -- 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/8b942417-26f8-42cb-81a6-2f0b8244566d%40googlegroups.com.
