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Essentially because of Feynman’s teaching that quantum mechanics works accurately to predict the results of experiments, that that is EVERYTHING, and that “para
by aj7 8y ago
Essentially because of Feynman’s teaching that quantum mechanics works accurately to predict the results of experiments, that that is EVERYTHING, and that “paradoxes” and “intuition” are suspect.
- acqq 8y agoAnd we can actually listen here Feynman's answer to "what is the meaning of..." and "why" questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA Note, despite the title of somebody presenting this segment of his talk, he definitely doesn't talk just about "magnets" but really about "the meaning" and "why" questions (the youtube poster got it). About the needed "expected framework" to avoid "perpetual why questions" etc. Even the things that we take for granted, e.g. using electricity in our day to day life, or the eventual "why" we don't fall through the floor can't be properly explained using just our "common" intuition. In another direction, it works, we are "used" to see some effects of the electrical forces all the time, so that's what is "intuitive" to us because we're familiar with it. So back to the original title of the article submission here: "why ... shrugged off the paradoxes..." it can be easily seen that once one is getting an answer inside of the expected framework, one doesn't "shrug it off," one is actually satisfied with the answer.