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"Gödel’s theorems, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics" Bah. It drives me crazy when people use scientific or mathematical
by 7402 6y ago
"Gödel’s theorems, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics"
Bah. It drives me crazy when people use scientific or mathematical principles as psychological metaphors, without understanding what the principles actually mean. They usually get it wrong.
When you apply the Uncertainty Principle to a flying airplane, it implies the exact opposite of what the author thinks it does. A fighter jet is a macroscopic object. Assuming I recall my college physics correctly, if the velocity of the plane is "only" known to within a quintillionth of a m/s, then the position is "only" knowable within a few hundredths of a quintillionth of a meter.
- thethimble 6y agoMaybe better would have been "Bayesian Inference"?