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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by epicureanideal on Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:43PM (#34364036)
Maybe not where you studied, or at the level you studied, but in upper division undergrad physics at a top tier California school I definitely was given the impression that I should just crunch the numbers and not think too much about how it might be working.
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by njarboe on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:09AM (#34364184)
Was this a quantum mechanics class? Thinking about how it might be working leads to strange things like the Many-Worlds Theory[1] and other very weird ideas. "Shut up and calculate" is the usual method of dealing with these deeper questions.

Beware; deep rabbit hole. [1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/#:~:text=Th....

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