Important point… And also, if you try to specify clearly what “mechanical” means, you’ll probably find that the notion disintegrates. The intuition that reality is “mechanical, ultimately” can’t be made to work as one would like.https://twitter.com/everytstudies/status/976553333606486016 …
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I agree with it strongly enough to quote-tweet it and say “important!”
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OTOH, I think physics isn’t “mechanical” in any useful sense.
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Related: when I teach "fun" physics courses for high school students, I like to make the point that there's no meaningful sense in which "physics is the most fundamental science", or "everything is physics". Some of them really hate hearing this!pic.twitter.com/FxZWIfTayj
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I think physics attracts certain types of boys who want to believe they can learn the most fundamental thing, and thereby understand everything (up to boring details) Telling them that every level of reality deserves equal respect and must be studied in its own right offends them
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