Stopping a roulette wheel by hand as man-made physics. |
The recent posts on Wolfram's new proof of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics exhibit a basic difference between
- Classical physics as universal deterministic physics independent of human observation.
- Modern physics as man-made statistical physics dependent on human observation.
The change from classical to modern physics was initiated by Planck in 1900 in an analysis of blackbody radiation extending Boltzmann's statistical mechanics of material particles to light particles, and then picked up by Einstein as photons in 1905.
The break with classical mechanics was the introduction of statistics as a man-made concept used by insurance companies collecting data to compute customer tariffs, without any corresponding agency in Nature.
The next break came with Einstein's relativity theory giving different observers different conceptions without common ground, and the final break came with Born's statistical interpretation of Schrödinger's wave function of quantum mechanics stating that electrons in atoms play roulette with an act of observation influencing the physics by stopping the roulette wheel by human hand, referred to as collapse of the wave function.
These were all breaks with the universality of classical deterministic physics independent of human observation into different forms of man-made statistical physics, thus giving up the basic cause-effect of deterministic physics, as a collapse of physics.
The reason to make this immense sacrifice, with far-reaching loss of rationality, was a perceived limitation of classical deterministic continuum physics to describe (i) black-body radiation, (ii) atom physics and (iii) speed of light.
But it is really necessary to pay this major scientific cost into bankruptcy of modern physics?
Is it possible that (i)-(iii) can be handled within classical deterministic continuum physics?
I present a positive answer here:
Take a look! Why pay a high price for something of questionable value ruining your economy, if it is not necessary?
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