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It's a shame when physics is presented as how reality works! Rather than what it is: our best model.
by nmyk 11y ago
It's a shame when physics is presented as how reality works!
Rather than what it is: our best model.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoPhysics is our best model? OK, I buy that. The Copenhagen interpretation? Not so much. It's an interpretation. The actual physics is in the equations. I can believe the equations without believing the Copenhagen interpretation, or any interpretation.
- nmyk 11y agoRight. The various interpretations are not so much science as philosophy. At best, they're scientific hypotheses, and that's only if they turn out to be falsifiable.
- effie 11y agoExactly. Many people seem to fall into trap of regarding established theories of theoretical physics as some ultimate truths about the world, instead of as currently used useful models which are necessarily imperfect simplifications of things. It is depressing to see science, which has contributed to exposition of fallacy of church teachings during the past centuries and help enlighten people, to be on its best way to becoming a church full of dogma and blind followers itself.