Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt crashed the model

Re:Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt cra... by _heimdall on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:17PM (#44600529)

This touches on another area I view as wholely unscientific - quantum physics. The most fundamental hypothesis of the field is untestable by design.

We will never know if quantum state exists or if probability clouds collapse upon observation because by that very principle we will never know the state prior to observing it.

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Re:Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt cra... by krapp on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:28PM (#44600600)

We have technology that only works because quantum physics is a thing. Lasers, LEDs (particularly blue LEDs), GPS and MRIs and semiconductors are some examples. Computer chips are getting small enough that quantum tunneling is a real engineering concern. Quantum entanglement has been experimentally verified numerous times.

Calling it "wholely unscientific" makes you seem like a crank.

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Re:Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt cra... by _heimdall on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:34AM (#44603548)

We have technologies that work, and we believe that quantum theory plays a part. We don't know that and we simply can't given that (a) its a theory and (b) it is untestable as I said earlier.

How would you propose we could test quantum state and collapse to validate that the concept is actually correct?

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