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The Microphysics of Copypasta

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jeffr...@gmail.com

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Jan 22, 2018, 3:26:15 AM1/22/18
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"The Rubard Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", 2009

Short thought: we all know, even in the absence of real knowledge about the mathematical core of quantum mechanics, that there are different interpretations of its meaning — some of them pretty kooky. My idea: perhaps the upshot of QM is not that early 20th-century scientists proved that reality isn’t real and we should all go study Taoism (which is of a certain independent interest) as our guide to the cosmos, but that they had a sense of unease about things they knew without knowing why they knew them: the body of theory and experiment deriving from new instrumentation did not apperceptively close, the predictive power of certain frameworks (e.g., those deriving from the introduction of matrix methods, which arrived as something of a deus ex machina) could not be satisfactorily explained in terms of a unified theory meeting canons of simplicity. A similar sense of spookiness is to be had sometimes in social life, but that’s a thought for another time.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 20, 2021, 2:26:50 AM12/20/21
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On Monday, January 22, 2018 at 12:26:15 AM UTC-8, jeffr...@gmail.com wrote:
> "The Rubard Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", 2009
>
> Short thought: we all know, even in the absence of real knowledge about the mathematical core of quantum mechanics, that there are different interpretations of its meaning — some of them pretty kooky. My idea: perhaps the upshot of QM is not that early 20th-century scientists proved that reality isn’t real and we should all go study Taoism (which is of a certain independent interest) as our guide to the cosmos, but that they had a sense of unease about things they knew without knowing why they knew them: the body of theory and experiment deriving from new instrumentation did not apperceptively close, the predictive power of certain frameworks (e.g., those deriving from the introduction of matrix methods, which arrived as something of a deus ex machina) could not be satisfactorily explained in terms of a unified theory meeting canons of simplicity. A similar sense of spookiness is to be had sometimes in social life, but that’s a thought for another time.

2021 Update:
It's so very lonely
You're two thousand brain cells from home

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 20, 2021, 10:23:03 AM12/20/21
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Update 2021: Learned about the problems with Spam, but "copypasta" is a hateful enough (and still-enough-used) expression itself, no?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Dec 21, 2021, 11:56:13 AM12/21/21
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Spam is, you see... imperialist.
"Copypasta" is... not nutritious.

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jan 8, 2022, 11:00:10 AM1/8/22
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2022 Update: Are "we" tired of this kind of thing yet?

Jeffrey Rubard

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Jan 17, 2022, 2:02:34 AM1/17/22
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2022 Update, Continued: "Copypasta" is like lots of other things, even if you don't see it.
It's a "red herring". Further meaning you read into a copypasta meme is foolish and wrongheaded --
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