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He is a mathematical physicist and he seems not to think much about the relationship between the mathematical models and the physical world. https://www.math.c
by kgwgk 4y ago
He is a mathematical physicist and he seems not to think much about the relationship between the mathematical models and the physical world.
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10533 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10533
It’s interesting the reply from John Baez (another mathematical physicist) to Woit’s “The state of the world is described at a fixed time by a state vector, which evolves unitarily by the Schrodinger equation. No probability here.”:
“And perhaps no physics here, either, unless we say how the state of the world is described by that vector: that is, how we can use the vector to make predictions of experimental results.”
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