Leibniz dreamed of machines that could calculate and reason. Three hundred and fifty years later, mathematics has created AI, a machine that can both calculate and reason—and thereby create new mathematics. Mathematics has become a tool for its own development.
What is the role of human reasoning?
måndag 9 december 2024
Sabine: Stagnation in Physics 1924-2024
Sabine Hossenfelder has taken up the mission to expose the so called crisis in physics, or rather in her words the stagnation of fundamental physics presented in this long interview starting out
We haven't really made any progress on the big open questions since they occurred a century ago.
We still do not understand how Quantum Mechanics QM works.
QM has a problem of inconsistency.
Here Sabine gives reason for the stagnation of fundamental physics ultimately based on QM as atom physics:
If we do not understand QM, how can we understand anything based on QM?
QM is not understandable, because it does not make sense as a theory of physics.
A physical theory which does not make sense as real physics cannot be understood in a real sense.
In this situation, there are two possibilities:
QM is anyway accepted even if does not make sense. This is the current agreement by the physics community.
QM is discarded (since it does not make sense).
I have followed 2 by developing a different form of atom physics named Real Quantum Mechanics RealQM, which is fundamentally different from the accepted QM which I refer to as Standard QM or StdQM initiated by Schrödinger in 1924.
RealQM is understandable as a physical deterministic continuum mechanics model in 3 space dimensions. The reason StdQM is not understandable, is that it is a statistical model in many-dimensional configurations space without physical meaning. Compare with John Clauser.
Sabine has emerged as a very successful presenter of science, after giving up a career as fundamental physicist, since quantum gravity did not make sense, with particular mission to expose the stagnation in fundamental physics. This is admirable. What is less admirable (from my point of view) is that Sabine does not show any interest in finding some path to progress away from stagnation, such as RealQM.
When controversies arise, there will be no more need of disputation between two philosophers than between two accountants. For it will suffice to take their pens in their hands, to sit down to their counting tables, and to say to each other: Let us calculate. Leibniz, The Art of Discovery (1685)
For when propositions are denied, there is an end
of them, but if they bee allowed, it requireth a
new worke. The Essais of Sr. Francis Bacon, London, 1612
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell
Nothing is created by coincidence, rather there is reason and necessity for everything. Leukippus, 5th Century BC.
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