Monkeymind comments on Configurations and Amplitude - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 04 May 2012 04:11:03PM 5 points [-]

Instead of talking about details, I'd like to remind you of the big picture.

You think physicists get it wrong and you get it right. That is not completely impossible. However, based on the theories of physicists we have a lot of stuff that works: planes that fly, microwaves that heat, GPS devices that measure your position. So if their theories are wrong, how do you explain that all this stuff, built on their theories, works? Their theories, if not completely correct, must be at least approximately correct, or mathematically equivalent to correct, right? So even if they make errors, they surely do not make obvious errors. However, what you write, suggests that there is a big difference. How is it possible, if you are right, that a theory so different from yours can still produce all the stuff that works?

(To compare, LW contains a few discussions on many-worlds hypothesis versus collapse hypothesis, but those two are mathematically equivalent. In other case, an experiment could be done that decides between them, and someone would probably have done it decades ago.)

Comment author: Monkeymind 04 May 2012 10:16:55PM *  0 points [-]

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