Robert Thibadeau
1 min readSep 4, 2021

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The use of natural language to describe the math is not necessarily good. Here is one example "'wave somehow collapses". That is not what the math says...which is just math. An equally right verbal description could be that the particles are governed by an wave function that cannot be detected except certain ways. So there could be a wave governing where the particles land just not one that is detectable once the particle location is detected. Nobody really knows what the underlying reality is but math tells the truth when it has been proven to make correct predictions based on direct observations that anyone (suitably trained and with the correct equipment) can verify for himself.

There are predictions in these systems of math and accepted observations (axioms and measurements) that are not verified and there are measurable quantities in nature that quantum physics does not address (except by handwaving and blurting out lies in English or some other Natural Language)

just say'n. But this is a good example of where the human language 'explanation' is not exactly telling the truth.

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Robert Thibadeau
Robert Thibadeau

Written by Robert Thibadeau

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com

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