On Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 1:51:34 AM UTC-7, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 2:12:38 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> It seems like a simple question aching for an answer. Why do physicists, >> many of them at least, prefer a baffling unintelligible interpretation of >> superposition, say in the case of a radioactive source, when the obvious >> non-contradictory one stares them in their collective faces? AG >> > > > > > The fundamental and psychological problem many physicists have is that > they take some mathematics (in some particular theory) and assign physical > realities to its mathematical entities. Most of them do not understand the > nature of mathematics: It's a language (or collection of languages) about > mathematical entities - which are thought of differently depending on one's > philosophy of mathematics. (It is best to say they are *fictions*.) This > is especially true when probability theory (as defined in mathematics) is > involved. This hopping between physical realities and mathematical entities > leads them to them being unable to distinguish between them, or to > communicate to the public the true nature of physics. > > @philipthrift >
Thanks for that! I'd like to hear Brent's and Bruce's opinion in this matter. AG -- 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/b982c7d8-6d59-4582-b46a-2d4e4a5cbfbe%40googlegroups.com.
