On 11/23/2024 5:47 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 9:19 AM PGC <[email protected]> wrote:
> [the Gödelian critique]///Applied to quantum mechanics and
ontology//indicates that any framework aiming for ontological
finality will inevitably encounter unprovable truths if it
includes arithmetic or its use in its formulations. /
*ButPhysics is not mathematics. In physicsyou don't need to prove
experimental results, you need to demonstrate them. Theory is used to
predict and explain those experimental results, which Objective
Collapseand Pilot Waveand Many Worldsall can do. *
So do the more instrumentalist interpretations
*The best theory is the one that can do so with the fewest
assumptions; and in that regard Many Worlds is the clear winner. *
You only think so because you close your eyes to it's shortcomings. Try
this lecture by Jacob Barandes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9RhoQVxuwQ
And Barandes is not only a critic; he has a one-world formulation that
is still conventional, non-instrumentalist QM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sshJyD0aWXg&t=49s
Brent
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