Adam Becker

There's plenty of room for weirdness.

But there should be a story, even if it's a weird story, that quantum physics tells us about the world.

And it needs to be a story that makes internal sense, even if it's a really, really weird story.

Yeah.

Right.

There's a difference between being bizarre and being internally contradictory.

The weird thing is that the standard way of answering questions like, what does quantum physics tell us about the world around us, is to say, shut up, that's a stupid question.

There's actually a saying in physics to summarize this attitude, shut up and calculate.

Oh, boy.

Because, no, no one...

That was originally coined by the physicist David Merman as like a pejorative.

Like he was describing an attitude that other people have.

Right.

No one actually should say that in earnest.

Right.

But some people do.

And yeah, it's completely...

plays.

Say that I want to describe... I'm holding a pen.

Say I want to describe where this pen is or where I'm going to find this pen using the physics that we had before quantum physics, like Isaac Newton's physics.