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   screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 02:53:52 JST screwlisp

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   • Barry Schwartz 🫖

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   Feynman was encouraged into physics by his father his whole life. His father really wanted to know what was inside of an electron. Well, the later nobel-prize-winning Feynman thought, what we call an electron is not really like that. But he also thought this answer would have been a profound disappointment to his father.

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     Barry Schwartz 🫖 (chemoelectric@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 02:53:53 JST Barry Schwartz 🫖

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     Of course it is inflammatory to say someone is unintelligent, but politeness is used as a weapon in the style of physics prose. One is disallowed to call idiotic notions idiotic, and magical reasoning magical, even though in any other field they would be laughed at.

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     Barry Schwartz 🫖 (chemoelectric@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 02:53:53 JST Barry Schwartz 🫖

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     Anyone presenting "Bell's theorem" would, in any other field, be laughed out of the room for screwing up Bayes' rule. In physics, when the exceptions to Bell's theorem" are pointed out—thus proving it is not a theorem—they are called "loopholes".

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     Barry Schwartz 🫖 (chemoelectric@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 02:53:53 JST Barry Schwartz 🫖

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     So, anyway, here are some of the obvious reasons there can be no such thing as "quantum" physics.

     The first is that quantum mechanics is a hodgepodge of mathematical methods, and far from being a fundamental branch of mathematics. Therefore the claim that there are physics problems that require quantum mechanics for their solution is false on its face.

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     Barry Schwartz 🫖 (chemoelectric@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 02:53:54 JST Barry Schwartz 🫖

     I feel like mentioning some of the obvious reasons there cannot possibly be such a thing as "quantum" physics distinct from "classical" physics. I do not care that the entrenched establishment says otherwise. They are not very intelligent.

     Even intelligent persons get sidetracked into the "debate" system—they read what the unintelligent persons write and fashion responses. It would be better NOT to read the unintelligent papers, for they mislead.

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