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As a person who's been interested in physics but without any depth at all, this was a very interesting article and I'm kind of relieved that it's not settled.
by treve 4y ago
As a person who's been interested in physics but without any depth at all, this was a very interesting article and I'm kind of relieved that it's not settled.
- bluepnume 4y agoSadly it's not settled in large part because many physicists have stopped caring about more fundamental interpretations or explanations for QM. "The theory works, the math checks out, so we're done" -- and we're left without a really satisfactory explanation for why or how it works.
- pmoriarty 4y agoFeynman famously admonished his students to "shut up and calculate" -- a pathetic attitude that's tantamount to surrender. I much prefer Benjamin Disraeli's "All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."
- bluepnume 4y ago"Shut up and calculate" is misattributed to Feynman.