On Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 9:00:08 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 2:53 AM Philip Thrift <cloud...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > *Name one thing that is explained by science.* > > > Explain what you mean by explain. I'll tell you what I mean by the word, > describing something complex in terms of something simpler so well that > accurate predictions can be made. > > *> Here is the code for the Standard Model.* [lots of math follows] > > > There is no doubt about it, that is one hell of a lot of complex stuff, > but it's not nearly as complex as all the stuff the Standard Model can > "explain" as I define the word in the above. > > > *What if it were 10000 times bigger?* > > > It would still be cheap at twice the price. > > John K Clark >
A theory T_b in a language L_b can be explained in terms of a theory T_a in a language L_a if T_b/L_b can be *translated into* or *compiled to* or *interpreted by* or *derived from* T_a/T_b. For b = chemistry and a = physics there's a problem: Moreover, Arriaga, Fortin and Lombardi argue that while the QTAIM [Quantum Theory of Atoms In Molecules] manages to ‘provide a rigorous definition of the chemical bond and of atoms in a molecule, it appeals to concepts that are unacceptable in the quantum-chemical context’, thus failing to sufficiently support the reduction of chemistry to quantum mechanics (Arriaga et al. 2019: 125). Van Brakel makes a similar point, arguing that the QTAIM works only after postulating facts from chemistry (van Brakel 2014: 32), thus rendering it insufficient for the support of chemistry’s reduction to quantum mechanics. https://www.iep.utm.edu/red-chem/#SH3a @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/b81cd33d-239e-46c9-9cfb-7c838baee02e%40googlegroups.com.
