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by teeja 17y ago
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"Schrödinger, Einstein, and Paul Dirac. They were all quantum skeptics in a sense. Dirac is the one whom people find most surprising, because he set up the whole foundation, the general framework of quantum mechanics. People think of him as this hard-liner, but he was very cautious in what he said. When he was asked, 'What’s the answer to the measurement problem?' his response was, 'Quantum mechanics is a provisional theory. Why should I look for an answer in quantum mechanics?'"
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- nopinsight 17y agoIn a way, a wise creator of a theory should be the one least fixated by it, as he knows all its potential weaknesses inside-out and the messy way it came into being. From your description, Dirac seems to be one of those wise geniuses.
- teeja 17y agoI'm sure you're right. Plus, in the sciences, he knows how his colleagues minds work (and all the politics). Dirac probably kept mostly quiet about his doubts because Bohr, the Godfather of QM, thought QM was the Cat's Meow, which Schrodinger didn't. And Schrodinger knew that he pulled his famous equation out of a hat (not derived). Likewise with Feynman, who always repeated "nobody understands quantum mechanics." Too, because of the very competitive culture in the hard sciences, you don't talk about things that are poorly understood. Because if you make a mistake, you'll catch a lot of (friendly or unfriendly) ribbing later.