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Maybe not where you studied, or at the level you studied, but in upper division undergrad physics at a top tier California school I definitely was given the imp
by epicureanideal 4y ago
Maybe not where you studied, or at the level you studied, but in upper division undergrad physics at a top tier California school I definitely was given the impression that I should just crunch the numbers and not think too much about how it might be working.
- njarboe 4y agoWas this a quantum mechanics class? Thinking about how it might be working leads to strange things like the Many-Worlds Theory[1] and other very weird ideas. "Shut up and calculate" is the usual method of dealing with these deeper questions. Beware; deep rabbit hole. [1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/#:~:text=The%20Many%2DWorlds%20Interpretation%20(MWI,and%20thus%20from%20all%20physics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/#:~:text=Th....