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Old 08-January-2009, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken G View Post
Note, however, that this "trick" is a pretty good description of what physics always does, in every case of practical interest. The goal of science is always simplification, and simplification always begins with pretense of some kind.
I agree that simplification is what it's all about, but it's not good science it it doesn't then try to find a quantitative description of the simplified process and that to my mind is where the Copenhagen interpretation fails
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