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In the article, there is a statement: "Empirically minded physicists have realized that the phenomenon of measurement can be directly probed by sufficiently sub
by acqq 7y ago
In the article, there is a statement: "Empirically minded physicists have realized that the phenomenon of measurement can be directly probed by sufficiently subtle experiments."
Then please write about these probes, and not just the rant that "nobody understands."
The public doesn't have to worry (and we don't have to read) about the "interpretations" until there is a specific proposition of how to do such probe an the experiment can be constructed and performed.
He writes "students who demonstrate an interest in the topic are gently but firmly — maybe not so gently — steered away, sometimes with an admonishment to “Shut up and calculate!”."
My answer to this article would be, to theoretical physicists: "shut up and construct an experiment that can be performed." As long as there's no practical difference (in the sense that any experiment that can be imagined can demonstrate it) there's just no physics there.
So yes... "shut up and calculate."
- zxcb1 7y agoIt's either that or "shut up and meditate"