Daniel Whiteson
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Does the wave function collapse?
What does that even mean?
50 years ago, people said, shut up and calculate, right?
Who cares?
Whatever.
The calculations work.
Why are you bothering me with these philosophical questions?
That was the prevailing wisdom.
But now we have a lot of progress in quantum foundations, people working on many worlds and Bohmian mechanics and all sorts of stuff.
And I think that's being respected now.
And so I'm glad to see an opening of the field, people willing to dive into these philosophical questions at the heart of
of physics.
And I hope to see more interaction between physics and philosophy departments.
At UC Irvine, we have an amazing department of logic and philosophy of science, staffed with guys who have PhDs in physics.
Sorry, staffed with guys and girls who have PhDs in physics.
They know what they're talking about.
Sure.
They're really smart folks with really interesting ideas.
So, a good response from a physicist on Higgs is, well, the math works.
So...