On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 7:32:43 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 7:29 AM Bruce Kellett <bhkel...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> Has Carroll forgotten about effective theories? Even QFT is just an >> "effective theory". We use classical approximations to quantum mechanics >> because they work -- not for ideological or philosophical reasons.* >> > > Read the book, Carroll devote several chapters to those exact topics. > > John k Clark >
I doubt Sean has any better "approach" that combines QM and GR than any of the many others. But if you go on a well-marketed book tour with a well-written book (and fiction can be well-written) then you gan get the science-interested public to think that it is the best approach that exists today. @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c6f6f659-d9db-4062-a9c4-a72323a82724%40googlegroups.com.
