On Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 2:12:38 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > It seems like a simple question aching for an answer. Why do physicists, > many of them at least, prefer a baffling unintelligible interpretation of > superposition, say in the case of a radioactive source, when the obvious > non-contradictory one stares them in their collective faces? AG >
The fundamental and psychological problem many physicists have is that they take some mathematics (in some particular theory) and assign physical realities to its mathematical entities. Most of them do not understand the nature of mathematics: It's a language (or collection of languages) about mathematical entities - which are thought of differently depending on one's philosophy of mathematics. (It is best to say they are *fictions*.) This is especially true when probability theory (as defined in mathematics) is involved. This hopping between physical realities and mathematical entities leads them to them being unable to distinguish between them, or to communicate to the public the true nature of physics. @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/80acd639-93ba-4689-97ae-475af5ac63b4%40googlegroups.com.
