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How quantum mechanics changed science forever
https://iai.tv/articles/how-quantum-mech..._auid=2020
INTRO: Quantum mechanics is extremely successful and extremely weird. Its weirdness has made it controversial. It doesn’t even try to do what we often think scientific theories must do: it doesn’t try to describe reality. Karl Popper thought this went against science’s very essence. But philosopher Marij van Strien argues here that quantum mechanics’ success shows that science has no fixed rules: progress is often made by breaking from conventional standards of rationality. This needn’t leave us in anarchy, unable to distinguish between good and bad science, as some fear: we just need to be more pragmatic when it comes to judging whether a theory is any good... (MORE - details)
https://iai.tv/articles/how-quantum-mech..._auid=2020
INTRO: Quantum mechanics is extremely successful and extremely weird. Its weirdness has made it controversial. It doesn’t even try to do what we often think scientific theories must do: it doesn’t try to describe reality. Karl Popper thought this went against science’s very essence. But philosopher Marij van Strien argues here that quantum mechanics’ success shows that science has no fixed rules: progress is often made by breaking from conventional standards of rationality. This needn’t leave us in anarchy, unable to distinguish between good and bad science, as some fear: we just need to be more pragmatic when it comes to judging whether a theory is any good... (MORE - details)