The extremely broad metaphor the guy gives us for trying to imagine this is -- the actual positive numbers that we add up in 1+2+3+4... can't give us a real sum The number keeps getting bigger, it leads us only toward ∞, and ∞ isn't a number, so the sum just doesn't exist
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Anyway when it comes the absolute weirdest and most disturbing implications of quantum physics, like a many-worlds multiverse, I've never heard a physicist actually explain to my satisfaction that it is bullshit They usually just say not to think about it
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(The philosophical question of a multiverse honestly kind of precedes knowing anything about physics anyway, either that kind of thing makes sense to you or it doesn't, the physics would just be a way of talking about the mechanism)
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Knowing about quantum physics itself doesn't prove anything about most other topics one way or another It is a useful rhetorical device for pointing out that "common sense" intuition isn't much of an argument about anything though
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I think what you’re saying, effectively, is that the electronics could not have been developed if the math were bullshit, because the math yielded predictions than were critical to developing the technology.
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Without predictive power in addition to descriptive accuracy, the math could be “bullshit” merely fitting observation.
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