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Re: Particle physics

From Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: Particle physics
Date 2016-10-06 10:41 -0500
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On 10/6/2016 10:11 AM, john wrote:
> So QM is book keeping.

So is biology, given all those animal and plant species.

> There are a whole bunch of "fields"
> and they are measured and
> recorded as they interact,
> and then the scientist has a better
> idea of what will happen next time?

Yes, exactly.

>
> Should work.

Well, you don't know that until you confront quantitative predictions 
against measurement. Then you know it works. Fortunately, that's been 
done pretty elaborately with quantum field theories.

>
> But what's your MODEL?

That's what a scientific model IS, John. Providing the description of 
what natural things are and how they work, tested by confronting 
quantitative predictions against measurement.

Scientific models are NOT visualizations or animations or cutaway models 
like what you see in a children's science museum. I know that's what you 
WANT them to be, but they just aren't.


-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 15:52 -0500
  Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-02 00:09 +0200
    Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-02 07:33 +0200
      Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-04 08:44 -0700
      Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-05 10:15 +0200
        Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 17:14 +0200
          Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-05 17:21 +0200
            Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 09:03 -0700
              Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 19:43 +0200
              Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 13:12 -0500
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 18:04 -0700
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 09:00 -0500
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 07:20 -0700
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 09:49 -0500
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 08:11 -0700
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 10:41 -0500
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 09:21 -0700
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 11:43 -0500
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 10:25 -0700
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 12:51 -0500
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 12:59 -0700
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 16:15 -0500
                Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 23:41 +0200
                Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 23:45 +0200
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 17:11 -0500
                Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 07:14 +0200
                Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 07:20 +0200
                Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 07:59 +0200
                Re: Particle physics moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-10-07 00:50 +0000
                Re: Particle physics edprochak@gmail.com - 2016-10-13 07:47 -0700
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 08:18 -0700
                Re: Particle physics edprochak@gmail.com - 2016-10-13 10:21 -0700
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-13 10:44 -0700
                Re: Particle physics moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-10-13 18:26 +0000
                Re: Particle physics moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-10-07 00:40 +0000
                Re: Particle physics HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 04:31 -0700
                Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-06 22:56 -0700
                Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-05 23:30 -0700
    Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 13:00 -0500
      Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 17:21 -0700
        Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 07:28 -0500
          Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 06:00 -0700
            Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 06:47 -0700
              Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 07:16 -0700
                Re: Particle physics HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 07:40 -0700
                Re: Particle physics benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-10-04 19:05 -0400
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 09:53 -0500
              Re: Particle physics moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-10-04 14:47 +0000
                Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-04 08:58 -0700
              Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 09:53 -0500
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 08:51 -0700
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 11:14 -0500
                Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-06 04:04 +0200
            Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 09:53 -0500
            Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-04 08:51 -0700
            Re: Particle physics rockbrentwood@gmail.com - 2016-10-07 10:22 -0700
      Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-04 08:41 -0700
        Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 10:59 -0500
          Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-04 11:10 -0700
      Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-04 08:48 -0700
        Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 11:12 -0500
      Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-05 10:28 +0200
        Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 07:21 -0500
          Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 18:47 +0200
            Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-10 13:31 +0100
              Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 05:53 -0700
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 07:43 -0700
          Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-10 13:22 +0100

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