In the case of interpretations or foundations of quantum mechanics, the thing to complain 3:13 about is that we're not trying to get the answer.Physicists figured it out 95 years ago, he just does not want to admit it.
the other depressing thing is that the 5:07 people, who are so convinced in like the Copenhagen interpretation which obviously is hilariously not even 5:13 defined very well so it absolutely shouldn't even be included among the respectable interpretations much less 5:20 the leading one, are just not educated about what the alternatives are.This is followed by a pitch for money.they're 5:25 sort of proudly ignorant of what the possibilities for thinking about the foundations of quantum theory are and 5:32 they don't want to know anymore. And I think that's also something that the physics community as a whole should be 5:39 embarrassed about.
No, textbook quantum mechanics is not something to be embarrassed about.
He is saying that essentially every physicist you have ever heard of is blindly accepting a nonsensical theory, and is ignorant of the alternatives.
And his chief alternative is many-worlds theory!
Professor Dave blasts Sabine for criticizing some eminent physicists, but Carroll is calling them all ignorant. No, they are not ignorant. They all know that many-worlds is a crackpot theory. The big majority of them do, anyway.
When there is a hole in your data, or your understanding, the remedy is not to invoke an infinite number of unobservable holes.
ReplyDeleteCFT:
ReplyDeleteWhen you want to say that, say: ``an infinity of.'' Infinity is not a number. But yes, the setup was such that the very last phrase did keep the delight away before finally delivering it.
Roger:
Are you *proud* of your University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Fall 1990 through / up to Spring 1993?
Were you? Are you? Were you?
--Ajit