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Abstract
I advocate an extreme "shut-up-and-calculate" approach to physics, where our external physical reality is assumed to be purely mathematical. This brief essay motivates this "it's all just equations" assumption and discusses its implications.
arXiv comments
This is the "director's cut" version of the September 15 2007 New Scientist cover story. For references, see the "full strength" version at arXiv:0704.0646
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> A vast majority of articles published right now will never even be reproduced and yet we take nearly all of them as if they are gospel. First of all, who is "we"? I certainly do not take them for granted. Any other responsible scientist doesn't as well. Science is not always…
> A vast majority of articles published right now will never even be reproduced and yet we take nearly all of them as if they are gospel. First of all, who is "we"? I certainly do not take them for granted. Any other responsible scientist doesn't as well. Science is not always…
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