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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by DonbunEf7 on Friday May 12, 2017 @03:45PM (#14327241)
There are multiple ways to interpret QM which all work out on paper and experimentally agree. There's nothing wrong with the "intellectual respectability" of non-Copenhagen interpretations, other than historical stigmata.

Edit: If you're worked up about "stigmata", just wait for "schemata", "indices", and "alumni".

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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by colorint on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:39PM (#14327716)
>historical stigmata

I only point out typos that are silly, so with that in mind: Stigmata is where you develop sores or bleeding on your hands as some sort of weird solidarity with Jesus. I imagine that would make writing papers harder.

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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by contras1970 on Friday May 12, 2017 @04:55PM (#14327862)
stigmata is the plural form of stigma, which is

    1 a archaic :  a scar left by a hot iron
      b         :  a mark of shame or discredit
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stigmata
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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by tossaway1 on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:06PM (#14327932)
The link you provided says

> "When the plural form stigmata is used, it usually refers to the nail wounds on Christ's hands and feet, wounds which have sometimes reappeared on the hands or feet of later worshippers such as St. Francis."

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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by contras1970 on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:20PM (#14328028)
usually !~ (always|only). OP's usage was fine and the complainant looked more ignorant than petty.
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Re:The Multiverse as Muse by roywiggins on Friday May 12, 2017 @05:12PM (#14327970)
It's a perfectly cromulent plural, but it immediately brings Jesus to mind, and I'm solidly non-religious and not even raised Christian.
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