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To: SpaceBar

“There are two camps. Those that ignore the weirdness and crunch the numbers.”

This camp is the camp that understands it and understands what it means and is for.

This camp does not take it as religious or philosophical, but scientific.


17 posted on 09/29/2014 5:40:08 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

Right in reading about Einstein I think he saw this as all reducible to simple explanations and nuts and bolts.


28 posted on 09/29/2014 7:10:50 PM PDT by Williams
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To: ifinnegan

I’ve often wondered if a good deal of the confusion surrounding the science wasn’t intentionally placed in the literature as an intellectual hurdle, since its grasp too easily could make nuclear warfare a less controllable endeavor.


34 posted on 09/30/2014 1:20:21 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: ifinnegan; SpaceBar
“There are two camps. Those that ignore the weirdness and crunch the numbers.”
This camp is the camp that understands it and understands what it means and is for.
Richard Feynman said that the "number crunchers" definitely do NOT understand it and that "anyone who tells you they understand it is lying."

He said that a degree in physics is like learning a series of recipes in mathematical cookbooks and has absolutely nothing to do with "understanding" quantum mechanics and that understanding is not even one of the goals of such a degree.

44 posted on 10/11/2014 5:47:15 PM PDT by samtheman
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