Waiter: What would you like for lunch? Niels: I can't tell you what lunch "is", but I can "say" it is observed as a Reuben sandwich. Waiter: *rolls eyes and walks away* Niels: Oh, and an iced tea!
When Niels Bohr was asked about QM somehow mirroring an underlying "quantum world" he responded: "There is no quantum world. It's wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature 𝒊𝒔. Physics concerns what we can 𝒔𝒂𝒚 about Nature."
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Niels: Oh, and an iced tea! Niels: *muttering* wait till you learn about the tip uncertainty principle
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Babylonian astronomers never even bothered to ask what were those lights in the night sky whose motions they studied and predicted. As long as they could say precisely where and when any particular one would appear in the night sky, they were content. What more was there to know?
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@MattZehnbauer@joedelvicario_ I think this is critical to my point on what the word “objective” in science is actually referring to.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That guy could say.
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Well, he was "crazy enough"!
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This is true about building models. Kinda reminds me of Taleb's green lumber fallacy
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Sort of a quantisation of Newton’s “Hypotheses non fingo”
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