Re: Math & physics.

On Jul 7, 8:36 pm, "Steve Bell" <sb...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They quite egotistically,
to me, make a weird jump that "if we can't see it, it ain't so," that simply because *we* can only make observatory equipment that
produces diffraction patterns, then the "truth" of the external world is "indefinite particles," your "nerf balls." This is very
poor logic, to me, and a complete misunderstanding of machine error.

Of course it's actually far worse than you say. Not only do they say
"if we can't see it, it ain't so" but they extend that to "If I don't
bother to look at it (even though I could see it if I looked) then it
simply doesn't exist until I do!" And in fact it's worse than that!
They even go so far as to say things are "unknowable". Which is
essentially identical with saying that something is "impossible" which
as I like to point out here is totally equivalent to saying, "I'm a
moron!"

Fact is QM is a science of ignorance. It's like studying the flipping
of coins. You know that there are forces and spins and various
physical parameters that determine any particular spin. But a
measurement and calculation of those details is like too much work. So
we find an easier way. We start doing statistics of coin flips. And
sure, we don't get every particular coin flip correct, but hey, ON
AVERAGE we know and can show what is likely to happen. Aren't we so
clever? And then to cover up our laziness, we'll propose the dogma
that the details of coin-flipping forces are "unknowable" by anyone!
There! We are now scientific geniuses and nobody dare deny it!

This is the sad state of "modern" physics.
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