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Hi, I am a neurosurgeon from Turkey with an interest in physics. I don't have formal training in theoretical physics or advanced mathematics, but i enjoy trying to build intuition about spacetime.

I joined Physics Forums to ask conceptual questions, learn where my intuitions break down, and get feedback from people who understand the formal theory much better than I do.


Looking forward to learning from the discussions here.
 
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Welcome to PF, scakpinar!

(Note: I see you found us via ChatGPT. You should know that AI output is not an accepted source or voice here, but otherwise we welcome your questions.)
 
DaveC426913 said:
Welcome to PF, scakpinar!

(Note: I see you found us via ChatGPT. You should know that AI output is not an accepted source or voice here, but otherwise we welcome your questions.)
Is it acceptable to use AI tools only for translation and language phrasing? English is not my native language, and I am going to use AI purely as a writing aid here.
 
scakpinar said:
Is it acceptable to use AI tools only for translation and language phrasing? English is not my native language, and I am going to use AI purely as a writing aid here.
Moderators will weigh in here. This is a new area, full of shifting ground, and policies are still in flux.
 
scakpinar said:
Is it acceptable to use AI tools only for translation and language phrasing? English is not my native language, and I am going to use AI purely as a writing aid here.
Yes, that is totally acceptable, Doctor. We mainly need to watch out for folks who try to use AI as a reference in the technical forums.

Welcome, and it's good to have you here. :smile:
 
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I've learned the hard way that intuition is a bad teacher for physics. Especially for QM.
 
But yiu mentioned it expclicitly so I stand corrected.
 
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I've learned the hard way that intuition is a bad teacher for physics.
Intuition is strengthened by experience and helps narrow down the correct option among infinitely many possibilities. Since it is impossible to evaluate all infinite possibilities individually through trial and calculation, we must eliminate some of them using intuitions shaped by our understanding. However, accepting intuitions as correct without testing them certainly does not lead to the recognition of truth.


When intuitions turn out to be wrong, this does not imply that intuition itself is useless; rather, it indicates that we have assigned an incorrect meaning to the situation at hand. I believe that the correct approach is not to discard intuition altogether, but to make further observations and to test a greater number of intuitively generated hypotheses.

I believe without intuition, we would remain lost among the epicycles of Ptolemy.
 
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I agree in principle. It's just than when applying my intuition to a physics problem it has (almost) never worked. That's not to say it doesn't have it place and function though. In fact, it's almost the same approach I have to the philosophy of physics. I seriously believe that when done right, by people who understand the mathemathics behind it, it can be a useful field, even pointing the way towards rewarding research (I'm not talking about interpretations of QM which I regard as a well and truly flogged horse and more metaphysics than science.)