tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post3997677253225559..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Where exactly does probability enter the theory?Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-81098509385329119282018-09-21T07:36:54.360-07:002018-09-21T07:36:54.360-07:00Quantum mechanics is one of the least successful t...Quantum mechanics is one of the least successful theories of all time.<br />http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/574/1/012088/pdfMD Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05342743632013663077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-49823826881359873002018-09-21T07:32:00.785-07:002018-09-21T07:32:00.785-07:00Yes, but QM is not really clear on what measuremen...Yes, but QM is not really clear on what measurement is. You are talking about using macrostates to find microstates. This could be further clarified.MD Coryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05342743632013663077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-59908629189277247652018-09-11T02:10:21.370-07:002018-09-11T02:10:21.370-07:00Roger,
Probabilistic analysis is useful in analyz...Roger,<br /><br />Probabilistic analysis is useful in analyzing the data, but it isn't an actual physical process/force/cause of the data. <br /><br />It is one thing to have every grade in a given size class room and calculate an average.<br /><br />It is quite another to start with the class average and pretend that it allows you to backwards calculate the initial grades that allowed you to calculate your average, or any other statistic for that matter. <br /><br />In either/any case, the average is actually NOT what is going on (an average grade isn't even the grade of an actual person, it's a mathematical fiction used to represent the class activity as a number), or how the grades came about, or why, and merely hides what is going on behind a number generated by a calculation. Given how poor the models of atomic particles are at present (electron bonding theory is hogwash, it has nothing to do with how atoms bond or combine or organize, and while good for balancing the accounting equations of chemistry formulas, do next to nothing explaining how the damn things work).<br /><br />Play with statistics all you like until you go blind, they Aren't actual causes (but a placeholder for a lack thereof), or explanations of causes, they are a mathematical abstraction pretending to be a description or cause. Particles do not somehow add themselves up and do math logic to determine their aggregate behavior, the mathematical process is NOT what the physical process is doing at all.<br /><br /> If you are merely content to look at highly processed group outcomes, fine, but you are really just guessing at what produced those outcomes... you only have to look at the ever growing absurdist zoo of particle physics to see it has become lost in artifacts of reified math.CFTnoreply@blogger.com