Re: Physicists Losing Their Grip??

From: AllYou! (idaman_at_conversent.net)
Date: 12/22/04


Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:20:47 -0500


<reany@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:1103741919.975296.294740@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Consc wrote:
> > Got the following from somewhere. If you have time this holiday,
> > pls. go over it. It's a serious comment about what is occuring
> > inside quantum physics. What quantum reality versions (he
> > mentions a lot) do you believe in. What part did the author
> > make a wrong assumption, if ever. Thanks. - Consc.
> >
> > Nick Herbert talks about "Quantum Reality":
> >
> > "Physicists Losing Their Grip
> >
> > One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have
> > lost their grip on reality.
>
> Physics is not about reality and it NEVER has been. Physics is about
> the invention of theories that work, because it can prove it can
> accomplish that much.

How do we know they work if we're free to invent any data we want?



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