Quantum theory: accepting a conjecture (Introduction)

by xeno6696 @, Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 02:32 (4735 days ago) @ David Turell

Accepted but not proven:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=proof-found-for-unifying-quantum&W...

It appears to be a reasonable unification. Note the comment comparing how differently mathematicians and physicists view math proofs.

My old joke does a better job than that article for displaying THAT difference...

Physicists try to say what's possible with the data.

Mathematicians are concerned with what's possible at all.

Case in point: ""If it isn't, it's still a general idea that holds most of the time."

In mathematics there is NO "Most of the time." (Because strictly speaking, ANY SOLUTION AT ALL is preferred to quaint, observational techniques.) ;-)

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"


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