BenBest explanation for Quantum Mechanics I've ever heard
Peter Schuttevaar@TheBreadmonkey would it not be better to teach theories that one CAN understand?
Ludwig Vielfrass@Pepasch @TheBreadmonkey There's no particular reason that the universe is understandable. Or as the great philosopher Douglas Adams put it:
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
@lerxst @TheBreadmonkey ludwig, the problem nowadays seems to be that if you have two theories, the one you can understand and the other is bursting from its internal enigmatic contradictions, people choose the latter. Even if the former predicts and expleins better.
The litmus test for a physical theory seems to be that it must cause huge cognitive dissonance in order to be taken serious. I find that counter productive.
@Pepasch @TheBreadmonkey We had physics that was relatively easy to understand intuitively, even if the math gets hairy from time to time.
The problem was as we delved deeper in our understanding, we found edge cases, it breaks down, and the universe behaves very bizarrely in domains that our brains never evolved to deal with because it wasn't important to our survival.
It's an open question if any consciousness in a universe is even capable of comprehending the rules of that universe.
@lerxst @TheBreadmonkey no no. The problem was that as we delved deeper, we chose theories that were counter intuitive, because we fell for the popular narrative that universe is a bizar place. It is not. The only things bizar in our universe are the humans and their theories.
@Pepasch @TheBreadmonkey OK chief.