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  • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPtoPhilosophy@lemmy.ml•What brought you into philosophy?
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    11 days ago

    Truth is a lot like the stars. There’s one big one, and a lot of small ones. Maybe we just have to accept that quantum physics is all about the many small ones.

    To be honest, I’m not sure what you mean by this.

    I will try to explain, but it might be a bit difficult for me to put it into proper formulation.

    I will try to explain it with a picture, if I can. You start with a base condition called x(0). It represents some physical quantity in time. As the system evolves, the quantity becomes x(t). Now, you can draw this graphically with “trajectories”, which are lines that draw out the curve that x(t) is making over time.

    What happens, due to randomness, is that this trajectory splits up into many smaller ones. This is what I meant with “small truths”. Then they unify again, when the randomness becomes irrelevant again, and that is what i meant with a “big truth”. Maybe I just put it badly at words before, English is not my native language either.

  • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPtoPhilosophy@lemmy.ml•What brought you into philosophy?
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    11 days ago

    Very interesting point! I feel that there is a lot to say about the ontology in quantum physics; (and I’m interested in that myself).

    I’ve adopted a few views that helped me cope with the practically non-existent explanation of what is really going on:

    1. Our brains are meat computers. Theories talk about the following: What does a computer measure after they have performed an experiment? In other words, theory isn’t supposed to be emotionally fulfilling. It is merely making predictions for the computer.

    2. Truth is a lot like the stars. There’s one big one, and a lot of small ones. Maybe we just have to accept that quantum physics is all about the many small ones.