Well, knowing what quantum theory tells us about light has allowed us to do a whole lot of stuff we weren’t able to do before, most prominently everything that we can do with lasers (which are not predicted to exist at all by classical theory, but were predicted advance by quantum theory, and then created because they had already been predicted, so researchers had an idea what to aim for.)
In any case, if you can’t give an example of any question and how you think scientists would have attempted to answer it compared to how you would have answered it, and why you think that would give superior results, why do you think you know better?
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AND I don’t think I know better. I only suspect that the SM I am describing will get better results because the principals make better sense than what we are currently using.
But I want to elaborate on something I said about why questions. Been thinking about this the last few days, after being asked what good is knowing why.
You ask why and:
your parents say “Because I said so.”
your teachers say “because smart people say so”
your preachers say “because the bible says so.”
You get tired or maybe conditioned by this and so:
You stop asking the why questions.
If we had more of the why answers maybe the what questions would make more sense. Maybe we would have less what questions.
x
Well, knowing what quantum theory tells us about light has allowed us to do a whole lot of stuff we weren’t able to do before, most prominently everything that we can do with lasers (which are not predicted to exist at all by classical theory, but were predicted advance by quantum theory, and then created because they had already been predicted, so researchers had an idea what to aim for.)
In any case, if you can’t give an example of any question and how you think scientists would have attempted to answer it compared to how you would have answered it, and why you think that would give superior results, why do you think you know better?
x AND I don’t think I know better. I only suspect that the SM I am describing will get better results because the principals make better sense than what we are currently using.
But I want to elaborate on something I said about why questions. Been thinking about this the last few days, after being asked what good is knowing why.
You ask why and: your parents say “Because I said so.” your teachers say “because smart people say so” your preachers say “because the bible says so.”
You get tired or maybe conditioned by this and so: You stop asking the why questions.
If we had more of the why answers maybe the what questions would make more sense. Maybe we would have less what questions.
This is a LessWrong idea two: play the why game, keep asking “why” all the way down. Can’t find the post on this though :/