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?
tisdag 20 januari 2026
The problem with pretending quantum mechanics makes sense
Sean Carroll, as leading modern physicist and philosopher, today 100 years after Quantum Mechanics QM was born, offers the general public the following information to digest:
QM is weird,
because despite the fact that we are celebrating its 100th Anniversary right now,
we still don't understand it.
We need guidance from experiments, and so the only way to do that is to build bigger and better experiments.
What if I think about this particular system in a completely new way?
So in my lifetime anyway, I don't think my job is in danger and being put out of work by the computer revolution.
We hear Carroll say that QM is not understood by modern physicists, who anyway pretend that QM makes sense, which poses a credibility problem. The only way out of is to come to a better understanding by trying some new way of thinking.
After having declared that he does not understand QM, and nobody else, Carroll tell us during a lengthy presentation that QM makes a whole lot of sense as the basis of modern physics and technology.
RealQM offers a new way of thinking as a form of QM which can be understood, because it has the form of classical continuum mechanics without conceptual mysteries.
This adds perspective to the review process of a first article on RealQM submitted to Foundations of Chemistry reported in recent posts.
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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