The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
Chiara Marletto
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
So we have reached a paradox: The commitment to a totally scientific view of the world has led to theories that may be unscientific, according to Popper’s definition of science. In a sense, the miracle believers and the miracle nonbelievers have found a bit of common ground. This is not to say that the transcendent experience of miraculous phenomen
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The Beginning of Infinity
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Quantum mechanics tells us that within materialism – the idea that nothing exists except matter and its movements – there are uncertainties that do not derive from our ignorance but are fundamental to matter and the laws that govern it. In this view, uncertainty is an uneradicable feature of our physical world.
Psyche • Uncertainty Isn’t a Human Flaw, It’s a Feature of the World
So the only way that it seems to me that it can happen– that what can happen in the future first– either that everything becomes known, that all the laws become known. That would mean that after you had enough laws, you could compute consequences. And they would always agree with experiment, which would be the end of the line. Or it might happen th... See more