Omicron --
- "Identified" by a computer program, NOT by observation of any fluid from any person
- There is NO test to identify it
- There are NO scientific papers for research of it
It does not exist outside of a computer program.
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Can you give me a quick run down on that? I haven't looked into it.
Anything Quantum is "Theory", based on "theory", based on "theory", etc... other posters here have said "over a century of experiments and observations"... Its all models that they are referencing for "experiments and observations".
What else should it be? Do you know what "theory" means? It means that it has massive amounts of experimental verification as a reasonable model.
Science NEVER makes statements of Truth. It never pretends to make statements of Truth. People make statements of Truth, and they are always wrong, no matter which language they use, even math.
In the framework of the languages we know, mathematical theories (like QM) are the closest to Truth (how the universe works) that we have gotten.
But everyone knows the theories are incomplete. How incomplete? We have no idea. Probably very incomplete. As long as you don't expect science to ever make statements of Truth, you and science will always be copacetic.
I read that a few times and it still didn't bolster your argument. Science is only what has been observed and what is likely... Quantum Physics is an entire field of research based of unverifiable assumptions that is completely devoid of any factual basis. And it pays good too... What a combo!
On what basis do you make this statement? From your responses it doesn't appear that you understand what QM is, so I will explain it.
QM is a bunch of math. That it all it is. It is a mathematical model that fits experiment. It isn't just verified as a good model to describe the universe at a certain scale, it is the most verified model in all of science. I myself have done countless experiments that verify it. Hell, if you look at how your room gets full of light when the sun is out and yet not shining into your room (the fact that light doesn't travel in a straight line), that verifies the model.
Interpretations of QM are all over the place; a bunch of whacked out shit. Everyone knows that their interpretation of QM is wrong. These completely wrong interpretations are nothing more than people trying to make sense of the verified model, because that model doesn't fit with the type of observations that we call "normal"; i.e. what we experience in our day to day world.
Science is really the art of model building. In biology we build causal connection models, chemical connection models, mathematical connection models, statistical conclusions, etc. Its not what is "likely" its just a model that tries to fit in all the experimental data. The difference between "what we know" and "what it is" (reality) is huge in biology at every scale.
That doesn't mean we can't glean any useful information from our experiments, but it is never a statement of Truth, it is just an educated guess on a tiny piece of it.
Physics on the other hand is almost purely mathematical models. We take measurements of things, and we work out, with a bajillion data points, the path they took to get from point A to point B and the time it took to make the journey. That's pretty much all of physics in a nutshell. QM is our best model for those paths. Pretty much every experiment on a scale smaller than a planet fits really well into that model. We don't use QM for objects larger than a molecule because in aggregate, the physics of Newton, Maxwell, Boltzmann et al are easier to use, but you can use QM for all of those things and it works out really well.
Where the confusion comes in, is people interpret these mathematical models and try to say "this is reality".
It's not reality. Its a model of reality. It works for predictions, which means its sufficiently reliable that we can make things using the math (engineering).
We make all kinds of things that we couldn't make without using the mathematical models of QM: computers, phones, GPS, DVD players, etc., etc., pretty much everything we have that we call "modern society" is based on QM and could never have been built without those mathematical models of QM.
Every single time you type on your computer, it is a verification of the mathematical model of QM.