This is the view of the physicist as a kind of religious mystic, who
contemplates a physics outside of language, and some "truth" out there they
will never find.
But all there is to write/speak with is language,
e.g.
R_{\mu \nu} - {1 \over 2}g_{\mu \nu}\,R + g_{\mu \nu} \Lambda = {8 \pi G
\over c^4} T_{\mu \nu}
[ cf. https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php ]
and how different vocabularies understood pragmatically might be
translated into— or reduced to— one another
and playing the games of language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopragmatism#Wittgenstein_and_language_games
@philipthrift
On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 1:35:27 PM UTC-5 Lawrence Crowell wrote:
> Context is all if you are doing science, for in science we study objects
> and events. If your interest is in doing pure mathematics or computer
> science that is fine, but it in of itself does not give physics. Feynman
> made some note of this. I found this little science fiction clip
> interesting along these lines. It is about a dormant computer system
> activating an attack sequence in a war that is long over. Note who in a
> sense "won the war." The machines activate algorithms with no context to
> reality.
>
> https://youtu.be/IjJmTeBSEzU
>
> LC
>
>
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