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When I was a student, I was struck by the lack of focus on the weirdness of QM in the QM courses. It hit me super hard when it switched from courses where you c
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
When I was a student, I was struck by the lack of focus on the weirdness of QM in the QM courses. It hit me super hard when it switched from courses where you could spend extra time and feel like you really understood it to instead having a course where that extra time is a counterproductive rabbit hole and “shut up and calculate” is the most useful school of thought.
I absolutely love anything that tries to make progress on the foundational questions.
- petermcneeley 6y agoStephen Wolfram is trying to make progress in this area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ffaFXao&t=3955s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ffaFXao&t=3955s
- ShamelessC 6y agoWhich has received a good deal of skepticism from the scientific community.
- hilbert42 6y agoDespite what ShamelessC says about the skepticism of other physicists, I found Stephen Wolfram's talk absolutely fascinating. For the first time, some disparately related notions in my mind ceased to be so and now make sense to me in that they're integrally related in ways I'd not given much thought to previously. Irrespective of whether he's on the correct track or not, his explanation of certain phenomena, energy for instance, made complete sense. His way of using analogies to describe abstract processes is superb. By that I mean he is able to present one with conceptually understandable mental pictures or images of difficult physics that one would normally only understand through mathematical equations. It's a shame more physicists don't take a leaf [or do I mean branch - pun intended ;-)] from his way of presenting these concepts.