Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: SV: Mathematically complex physics



At 20:44 -0800 11/6/99, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
Sarma wrote:
... These models are a far cry
from what we mean by description in the popular sense. If you see how
far, far
removed is this mathematical formalism from what we know of the real
world,
one will not call it description in the sense we understand it.
Ofcourse QM predicts results of experiments. But are the quantities we
manipulate to get these results always have counterparts in the physical
world.
If they do not what is the fun in calling it as description of nature

Beyond a certain level of analysis, reality is not describable in literal
human terms. To assume otherwise is just another facet of human centered
arrogance.

...and it reveals an underlying habitual compulsion to reify everynonthing.

Leigh