I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty

Re:I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty by mftb on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:43PM (#33551995)

I also think your comment is pretty insightful. Most scientists seem stuck here:

> We can’t make confident predictions about the outcomes of experiments, but instead have to rely only on fuzzy probabilities. There are fundamental limits to what we can know.

...on the fact that we live in a probabilistic universe, not a deterministic one. One of the many things I don't understand is why it causes so much more trouble with QM than Relativity, doesn't it say largely the same thing? That eventually you reach a singularity where we have not the unknown, but the unknowable, because all of physics stops working?

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Re:I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty by bheadmaster on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:30PM (#33552840)

Philosophically, there is no difference between a deterministic universe that we can't fundamentally predict and a random universe, since the way we define the word random is through unpredictability.

Who would've known that the bottom line of science would be "you can't know nuffin".

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Re:I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Uncertainty by mftb on Friday November 11, 2022 @08:06PM (#33568904)

lol, well said. I must be a crazy person because for some reason this doesn't bother me.

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