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bhobba reacted to Tom.G's post in the thread Announcement Please welcome berkeman as PF Admin with
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A big CONGRATES @berkeman! The only Mentor I've run across that gives an Explanation when responding to a Report. Cheers, Tom -
bhobba reacted to Albertus Magnus's post in the thread Announcement Please welcome berkeman as PF Admin with
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Congratulations! I am at the present a very new member of the PF, however, already I have had the benefit help from @berkeman -
bhobba reacted to phinds's post in the thread Announcement Please welcome berkeman as PF Admin with Like.
And by the way, congratulations Mike. Once again, I thank you for all the effort you put in to keep this forum as great as it is.
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bhobba reacted to phinds's post in the thread Announcement Please welcome berkeman as PF Admin with Like.
Great news indeed. Now we can ALL bother him instead of just me :smile:
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bhobba reacted to Greg Bernhardt's post in the thread Announcement Please welcome berkeman as PF Admin with
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I am thrilled and honored to announce that @berkeman has accepted a role as PF Admin! @berkeman has 20 impactful years at PF under his... -
bhobba replied to the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real….Renormalisation was once seen as mathematical trickery, but several physicists, such as Wilson and Weinberg, clarified what was...
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bhobba replied to the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real….With my moderator's hat on, please no 'd**k measuring' contests. Let's discuss the physics. These things can often be found in the...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real… with Like.
More precisely, our best current theories of physics do not contain any action at a distance, at least for one common meaning of that...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Choquet-Bruhat (photo from 1974) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01763-z...
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bhobba reacted to weirdoguy's post in the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real… with Like.
And what is your basis for that claim? Have you studied physics? I mean like 5 years of hard work at Uni, or something equivalent? Or...
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bhobba replied to the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real….It is simply that we know standard QM is wrong, eg it predicts the hydrogen states are stationary, so can't jump between them. Yet they...
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bhobba reacted to weirdoguy's post in the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real… with Love.
That is why I think that all those "foundations of quantum mechanics" and interpretational stuff are total waste of time at the moment...
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bhobba replied to the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real….You need to become acquainted with Wigner's No-Interaction Theorem. It explains both why fields must exist and why they most definitely...
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bhobba replied to the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real….All experience says it is. What Wigner said still holds: https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf In my opinion...
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bhobba reacted to PeroK's post in the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real… with Like.
In my opinion, soundbites like "shut up and calculate" or "spooky action at a distance" are ultimately meaningless. They represent the...
