The complexity lens
Geez don’t people have difficulty accepting uncertainty, in the physics sense.
How can a thing be a particle and a waveform, but never both at the same time?
In expressing it, I try to make the analogy to the misty past; there are things that we know happened but we can only guess as to them.
For example, there is an exact number of times you’ve picked your nose or scratched your arse in your lifetime.
Had someone set out from day one to record these numbers, we’d know them. Maybe. But it’s likely that the recording device or whatever it was, would be intrusive and have affected the outcome.
But since they didn’t even try, we don’t know. But we know in principle that there is an exact number of times.
That’s what you call uncertain certainty or certain uncertainty.
There are the knowable unknowns and the unknowable unknowns, some of which we know are knowable in a parallel universe where we have our shit together.
In physics, the same principles apply. We simply don’t have our shit together yet. So it’s either confusion or blind faith.
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