Totally OT: Quantum Mechanics proof for the existence of a Supreme Conciousness?

bearophile bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Thu Feb 14 13:20:39 PST 2008


boyd:
> It seems to me that quantum physics is just an admittance that we don't  
> really know what the heck is going on. It's not science, it's philosophy.

Well, we aren't sure what a gravity field is (despite there are few theories for that too), still we can use newtonian laws (with a bit of help from relativistic ones when necessary) to predict certain future parameters of certain physical systems.
Predicting the future is one of main kinds of science.
Quantum physics doesn't know much what's the underlaying metaphysics, but it allows us to make very precise (and very useful in practice) predictions about certain aspects of certain physical systems (sometimes up to 13 digits of precision!) so that's science too ;-)
"Science" doesn't imply understanding everything below the level you experiment too, you can have black boxes too.

Bye,
bearophile



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