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AMA | June 2022
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Why Isn't the Black Box Explanatory?
Some theories are more explanatory than others, and in different senses. Vincent ome says science should always strive for explaining the underlying mechanisms of the world at different scales. Is that even possible for the quantum world? Or should we just take the equation as a starting point and not ask what is underlying these equations? For instance, the many worlds theory is deduced from the quanta mechanics equations, but it does not explain the mechanism by which the universe splits or does it?
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