On 8/24/2021 11:54 AM, Tomas Pales wrote:
On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 1:00:34 PM UTC+2 telmo wrote:
I haven't read "Physics for the Feeble-Minded" (yet?), but
something caught my attention in the review below:
https://theamericanscholar.org/physics-for-the-feeble-minded/
<https://theamericanscholar.org/physics-for-the-feeble-minded/>
"Rovelli’s short answer to this and other bizarre takes on quantum
weirdness: Nonsense! His real purpose is to posit his own theory
of “relations.” He suggests that most, if not all, of quantum
theory’s perplexities can be resolved by understanding that there
is no ultimate essence, no Kantian Ding an sich, no existence in
and of itself attributable to a particle. What we know, since we
too are part of nature, is only how something manifests itself to
us. It is only in relation to something else that anything can be
known—and a thing can manifest itself differently to different
things."
Maybe Rovelli is ready for Marchal :)
Cheers
Telmo
Those relations are between nothings?
That's almost literally Mermin's slogan for the view, which he also
advocates, "Relations without relata." But are relations abstracted
away from relata really any different from numbers abstracted from
things counted?
Brent
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