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Other than book deals, tv spots and entertainment, what have all of the many Interpretations of QM gotten us? By contrast what has shut up and calculate gotten

Other than book deals, tv spots and entertainment, what have all of the many Interpretations of QM gotten us? By contrast what has shut up and calculate gotten us? All modern electronics for a start...

goatlover 8y ago
Good thing Einstein didn't just shut up and calculate.
- GW150914 8y ago
  Says you, by claiming credit for philosophy in his work. Ironically if Einstein had taken a non-philosophical view of QM maybe his genius could have been applied to its advancement rather than disproven railings against it on philosophical grounds.
  - goatlover 8y ago
    Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect helped inspire the QM revolution. But I had Relativity in mind, the thing he's most well known for. As for his later life, he was searching for the TOE, which is an ongoing thing. Problem is that harmonizing gravity with QM has proved very difficult. As for debating QM, it's quite possible that will eventually lead to a new understanding. That's why shut and calculate is insufficient to advance the field. You need the theoretical side spinning out ideas for the shut and calculate types to carry out experiments and plug the data into equations. Some of these ideas range into the metaphysical side of things until they can be empirically tested.
  - smaddox 8y ago
    I assume you're talking about "God does not play dice". Einstein's famous quote may yet be proven correct. Everettian theory (many-worlds interpretation), Bohmian Mechanics, and Exotic Probability theory are all deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics. My money is on Exotic Probability theory winning out, with a lower level physical theory (perhaps causal networks?), providing the exotic probabilities. Einstein was fully capable of discovering exotic probability theory, having contributed greatly to the development of bosonic statistics. Unfortunately, he did not, and we've been floundering about with string theory and the like ever since his famous quote.

goatlover 8y ago

Good thing Einstein didn't just shut up and calculate.

GW150914 8y ago
Says you, by claiming credit for philosophy in his work. Ironically if Einstein had taken a non-philosophical view of QM maybe his genius could have been applied to its advancement rather than disproven railings against it on philosophical grounds.
- goatlover 8y ago
  Einstein's paper on the photoelectric effect helped inspire the QM revolution. But I had Relativity in mind, the thing he's most well known for. As for his later life, he was searching for the TOE, which is an ongoing thing. Problem is that harmonizing gravity with QM has proved very difficult. As for debating QM, it's quite possible that will eventually lead to a new understanding. That's why shut and calculate is insufficient to advance the field. You need the theoretical side spinning out ideas for the shut and calculate types to carry out experiments and plug the data into equations. Some of these ideas range into the metaphysical side of things until they can be empirically tested.
- smaddox 8y ago
  I assume you're talking about "God does not play dice". Einstein's famous quote may yet be proven correct. Everettian theory (many-worlds interpretation), Bohmian Mechanics, and Exotic Probability theory are all deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics. My money is on Exotic Probability theory winning out, with a lower level physical theory (perhaps causal networks?), providing the exotic probabilities. Einstein was fully capable of discovering exotic probability theory, having contributed greatly to the development of bosonic statistics. Unfortunately, he did not, and we've been floundering about with string theory and the like ever since his famous quote.