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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
With this influx of money and people that came after World War II, questions like but what does the theory mean were kind of swept under the rug. It's easier to teach people how to solve a partial differential equation than it is to talk about these thorny philosophical issues at the heart of the theory. So as you said, there's a lot of applied physics to do. There was even non-applied physics. Sure. When Murray-Gill-Mon is working out the SU3 symmetry group the eightfold way. Absolutely. And we'll get to the plucky band of rebels who did want to keep thinking about the foundations. And blew up the death star.
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