Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why Quantum Mechanics Is an Inconsistent Theory | Roger Penrose \u0026 Jordan Peterson" video.

  1. I think Tyson is a blowhard who sounds good, but talks over his head (and out of his a**) on subjects in which he is not very well-versed. Astrophysics? Expert. Everything else? Pompous layman. I also watched that interview, and my specialties are math and geology, both of which subjects he butchered, while sounding very cogent. I feel the same way about world-class linguist Noam Chomsky, who ALSO needs to stay in his lane, but people SWOON because he's smart in one thing and SOUNDS smart on other things, when in actuality, he's an ignorant socialist, with no clue on free-market economics, human liberty, and human progress, in my opinion. But nobody's hanging on MY every word, nor should they.
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  2. My very basic take on quantum mechanics is that statistics and probability are how we get a handle on things that are too small to see, individually. Consider the bell curve - the normal distribution. It describes populations quite well, quite often, but that distribution will give you a small, but positive probability of 500-pound mice. We know that there aren't any 500-pound mice, but the bell curve is pretty handy in the vicinity of the mean. What makes quantum mechanics so toxic (in my opinion) is people really want it to say more than it CAN say. I agree with Einstein: "God does not play dice." Just because we can't measure things doesn't mean there's something magical going on. It just means that we're limited in what we can measure. We can't SEE that atom, so we make measurements on a LOT of atoms, all at once, with no real idea what any one of them is actually doing, so we speculate and come up with probabilities. Then idiots get ahold of those speculations and draw ridiculous conclusions, in my humble opinion.
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