RE: More Quantum entanglement mind fuckery
December 8, 2018 at 3:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2018 at 3:28 pm by polymath257.)
(December 8, 2018 at 2:32 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Hmmmm. Cherub is saying that you can't really explain elemental phenomena. You are saying they cannot "by definition *have* a deeper explanation"-- i.e. that you can't explain them.
Don't believe me? Why do photons behave the way they do? Your answer is "they just do." That's an enumeration, rather than an explanation.
And again, why is an explanation in the classical sense to be expected? We *can* and do explain the behavior of photons in terms of quantum waves and how they interact with other quantum waves (like those for electrons). The 'explanation' is given by an interaction term in a Lagrangian, which might be 'explained' by certain symmetries in the E&M force.
An alternative is to point out that photons are *defined* to be the quantum particles that interact in certain ways (as given in the Lagrangian). Is that an explanation?
