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PeterDonis reacted to gentzen's post in the thread I A very interesting paper on orthodox quantum mechanics with
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Why do you think that I see an ensemble of particles? I see an experiment depending on some knobs, that I can repeat as often as I want... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Yes, I agree. And I would argue that our public school systems not only do not encourage this, they actively discourage it. Which would...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.Even leaving aside the political issues, I'm not sure this is true either. At least, not if "education" means what you are using it to...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.You're assuming that the primary cause of world poverty is lack of education. I don't think that's true. I think the primary cause of...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.So maybe the answer is to not have a one-size-fits-all public education system, but let different people with different preferences work...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.You shouldn't be. All human history shows that we humans are very poor at deciding things for others. There are cases where it has to be...
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PeterDonis reacted to bhobba's post in the thread I A very interesting paper on orthodox quantum mechanics with Like.
Although well thought of by many, including me, it is not an orthodox approach. That said, it is the book I recommend studying...
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PeterDonis reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
Stupid does not mean what you seem to think it means. Is that the goal? Productivity? Not, say, work/life balance? or happiness? Are...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.My experience was different. I saw my friends plenty during summer vacation--in fact it was nicer for me because I could see them...
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PeterDonis reacted to weirdoguy's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
This. It's 2025, I know some people don't want to belive this, but we are not robots. We need breaks. Children need breaks. And not...
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PeterDonis reacted to Janus's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
In other words, kids shouldn't be allowed to be kids. And I question whether you'd get that much of an improvement. I think it would...
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PeterDonis reacted to syed's post in the thread I Is there a bad intuition or bad explanation in quantum entanglement? with Like.
oh okay There seems to be a misconception here. You are confusing the sense of an objective truth independent of measurement with the...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread I Gravitational self-interaction: another attempt to replace Dark Matter.Um, that's the paper this whole thread is about. I already compared it to Deur's work in post #4.
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PeterDonis replied to the thread I Describing the Big Bang.Moderator's note: An off topic subthread spawned by a post about ChatGPT has been deleted. Please keep the discussion here on topic...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread I Describing the Big Bang.ChatGPT is an unacceptable reference here no matter how you use it. If you use it to give you clues, you still need to check your work...