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weirdoguy reacted to Peter Morgan's post in the thread I Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about real… with
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Renormalization is definitely on a better footing than it was before Wilson and EFTs, however I think it's fair to say that... -
weirdoguy replied to the thread B Newton's first law?.Great, but physicists don't read historical texts like gospels. And they are not afraid to challenge textbooks, mainly because during...
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weirdoguy replied to the thread B Newton's first law?.I don't think any physicist would write a textbook based solely on Principia. I don't even think that many physicists read Principia. Do...
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weirdoguy replied to the thread B Schrödinger's cat question.Which is also missed by most of popularisations, and unfortunately a lot of physicists.
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weirdoguy replied to the thread B Newton's first law?.That's why philosophers should leave physics alone, unless they are physicists themselves.
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Interesting article about Newton's first law...
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weirdoguy replied to the thread B Newton's first law?.I think that before reading Newton's Principia one should properly learn Newtonian mechanics from modern sources. Principia should be of...
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weirdoguy reacted to MidgetDwarf's post in the thread Need a book on Modern Physics to supplement Griffiths QM with
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Maybe have a look at Townsend and McTyre book? Then look at Griffiths? The difference is night and day. -
weirdoguy reacted to Muu9's post in the thread Need a book on Modern Physics to supplement Griffiths QM with Like.
I was hoping you would go through the effort of doing that for us. Something something burden of proof...
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My point is that I don't want to argue at this level. I don't want to spend my time trying to prove to you that AI is in widespread use...
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First, certain users are simply stating their opinion, as they have done from the outset, that AI ain't going to happen because they...
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It makes no difference. I guess, if you were starting at the beginning, then the body would have no forces acting on it. After you've...
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weirdoguy reacted to physicistwithaheart's post in the thread B Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? And what will happen if someone solves it? with
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the purpose of physics, is to predict we still can't predict ther degree's of freedom. so you cannot technically say it is solved. yea... -
weirdoguy reacted to dextercioby's post in the thread Need a book on Modern Physics to supplement Griffiths QM with Like.
Could you offer an exact example in Griffiths (presumably 3rd Ed., chapter, page, topic)? Thanks!
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weirdoguy replied to the thread Very long-term temperature trend.Why did you put science in quotation marks @DOGE3500?