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

On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 11:26:50 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> 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

Update 2021: Learned about the problems with Spam, but "copypasta" is a hateful enough (and still-enough-used) expression itself, no?

On Monday, December 20, 2021 at 7:23:03 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 11:26:50 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> > 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
> Update 2021: Learned about the problems with Spam, but "copypasta" is a hateful enough (and still-enough-used) expression itself, no?

Spam is, you see... imperialist.
"Copypasta" is... not nutritious.

On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 8:56:13 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> On Monday, December 20, 2021 at 7:23:03 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> > On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 11:26:50 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> > > 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
> > Update 2021: Learned about the problems with Spam, but "copypasta" is a hateful enough (and still-enough-used) expression itself, no?
> Spam is, you see... imperialist.
> "Copypasta" is... not nutritious.

2022 Update: Are "we" tired of this kind of thing yet?

On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 8:00:10 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 8:56:13 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> > On Monday, December 20, 2021 at 7:23:03 AM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> > > On Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 11:26:50 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > Update 2021: Learned about the problems with Spam, but "copypasta" is a hateful enough (and still-enough-used) expression itself, no?
> > Spam is, you see... imperialist.
> > "Copypasta" is... not nutritious.
> 2022 Update: Are "we" tired of this kind of thing yet?

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 --