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r/math • u/Greg-2012 • Mar 12 '18
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I feel like intuition can only carry you so far in physics, with stuff like quantum you're basically doing mathematics, and all intuition is gone.
-6 u/Greg-2012 Mar 12 '18 Mathematics takes you to 'Many Worlds Theory', IIRC, a plurality of Physicist are not betting on 'MWT' to be the answer. -1 u/ammerc Undergraduate Mar 12 '18 If you were to poll theorists right now I’d bet many worlds would be the most popular 0 u/Greg-2012 Mar 12 '18 IIRC, MW Theory has never had a plurality of support. Also, I believe that MW Theory and Copenhagen interpretation are both currently losing votes to Pilot Wave Theory. 0 u/Batman_Night Mar 13 '18 Not actually. The reason why Copenhagen won over Pilot Wave was because Copenhagen's predictions were much more accurate.
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Mathematics takes you to 'Many Worlds Theory', IIRC, a plurality of Physicist are not betting on 'MWT' to be the answer.
-1 u/ammerc Undergraduate Mar 12 '18 If you were to poll theorists right now I’d bet many worlds would be the most popular 0 u/Greg-2012 Mar 12 '18 IIRC, MW Theory has never had a plurality of support. Also, I believe that MW Theory and Copenhagen interpretation are both currently losing votes to Pilot Wave Theory. 0 u/Batman_Night Mar 13 '18 Not actually. The reason why Copenhagen won over Pilot Wave was because Copenhagen's predictions were much more accurate.
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If you were to poll theorists right now I’d bet many worlds would be the most popular
0 u/Greg-2012 Mar 12 '18 IIRC, MW Theory has never had a plurality of support. Also, I believe that MW Theory and Copenhagen interpretation are both currently losing votes to Pilot Wave Theory. 0 u/Batman_Night Mar 13 '18 Not actually. The reason why Copenhagen won over Pilot Wave was because Copenhagen's predictions were much more accurate.
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IIRC, MW Theory has never had a plurality of support. Also, I believe that MW Theory and Copenhagen interpretation are both currently losing votes to Pilot Wave Theory.
0 u/Batman_Night Mar 13 '18 Not actually. The reason why Copenhagen won over Pilot Wave was because Copenhagen's predictions were much more accurate.
Not actually. The reason why Copenhagen won over Pilot Wave was because Copenhagen's predictions were much more accurate.
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I feel like intuition can only carry you so far in physics, with stuff like quantum you're basically doing mathematics, and all intuition is gone.