IDGAF about that theory. It's plainly wrong, then. I reject all mechanistic and materialistic idioms of the universe. As annoying as it is, the weirdos into "spiritual" stuff are much more correct about this particular point than most would care to admit.
Your actions matter. Your thoughts matter. Your intent, heart, mind, body, choices and voices all matter. They matter more than the "matter" you are made of.
This isn't a flawed theory, just a difficult one.
It's a very flawed theory. So much so that it can't accurately predict many observable phenomena.
the measurements have been accurate. Mathematics is not a science that makes mistakes.
Mathematics is a language. All human language is both incomplete and unable to be complete. Therefore, it is not perfect and will never be.
Truth, but it only needs to be more complete than our abilities to measure and hypothesise about the physical world.
Maths has been winning handily since Newton's day.
Rather humiliating really...
Sure. But even then, it took hundreds of years to be ubiquitous enough for high school students to be taught it with any appreciable use. I'm very unsure if the math that's at the current fringes will ever reach that level of ubiquity.
Do you think the pyramids were made by dragging blocks of stone?
The method is not so much of interest as the functions. They could have been dragged and placed. They could have been floated via sonic manipulation. They could have been popped out of a giant vessel whole. I honestly don't care so much about that.
Is this a reference to Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems?
Tangentially, but not specifically.
Pick something. Anything, really. Any thing. A orange.
Using any language you like, describe it, in totality.
You can't. This is the finiteness of our understanding which limits our ability to just describe things, and, that isn't even enough to give a "complete" description since you would only be describing the thing and not it's place in the universe, how it grew, the history of the genetics that caused it to grow the way it did, how the matter from which it was grown was assembled, and even how the matter from which it is composed came to be in the first place, and I don't mean in the general, hand-wavey "we're all stardust" blech kind of explaination, but with exacting specificity down to the most transient sub-atomic particles that build the thing.
None of this matters to most people, but, very thing, every human, every instance is quite miraculous because of everything, and I mean literally everything, that had to go exactly as it did to lead us all to the point where we can have this conversion on various devices in widely different locations practically in real time.
That is why everything you do matters. That is why everything that has been done matters. That is why you matter. You are infinitely important even if you are only an infinitesimally small part of what we can observe the universe to be.
What are your thoughts on the double slit experiment?
I'm pretty ambivalent about it. To anyone who takes a non-materialistic view of the universe, it's just a completely obvious outcome. The only reason it perplexes so many is that "the enlightenment" really ruined thinking for hundreds of years and the damage may really never be undone. Materialism is obviously incomplete, and it's usually also accompanied by an active disdain for anything that cannot be accounted for as mechanistic process. It's offensively lazy and poisonous thinking as it leads to the nihilism of incessant naval-gazing. Nothing matters because we're all just matter doing pre-programmed stuff that won't matter because the future is mechanisticslly projected from this point in a fixed, mechanical way.
EW.
So, if the double slit experiment makes people think that the world is NOT just particles and processes, cool. It's just not all that special to anyone who (rightly, IMO) believes that the whole of creation is not just hard matter moving in ways that are pre-destined.
