Re: Science, Philosophy, Mysticism, Art, Mathematics, and Physics

From: Wolf Kirchmeir (wwolfkir_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:36:46 -0500

robert j. kolker wrote:
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> Lester Zick wrote:
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>> Unfortunately, QM doesn't explain the somehow, which is what a
>> mechanics is supposed to do.
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> Tell me. How does a Lagrangian formulation of mechanics explain
> anything? What it does is imply some laws which when applied produce
> good predictions. What makes you think there are entities behind the
> appearences that behave mechanically? What evidence do you have.
> Classical physics which was solidly mechanics is an empirical failure
> which is why we have quantum theory and relativity. The truly mechanical
> theories such as statistical mechanics are heuristics, not fundemental
> models of reality. QM works. Relativity works. What more do you want?
>
> Bob Kolker
>

Lester want to be recognised as the one who explains the _reasons why_
everything is the way it is. But just why "mecvhanism" should be the
reasons why, he can't say; nor why the mechnaism of "differences between
doifferences" is the fundamental mechanism.

IOW, Lester can't accept that things are simply what they are, and the
best we can do is describe how things happen. IOW, he can't accept what
I call the Fundamnetal Ignorance Theorem (first expressed by Bertrand
Russell): When we know that we say is true, we don't know what it means.
When we know what mean, we don't know if it's true.

Now, I wonder how Lester will blast me for that piece of heresy. :-)

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