Re: Quantum mystics

On 6/9/2024 5:07 PM, Martin Brown wrote:

That's hardly usual, or a reason to call him wrong. He won the Nobel
Prize just to get free plane tickets.

 I'm not quite sure what he has said that annoyed JB - usually any popular science programme for a general audience dumbs down quantum mechanics to a point where it is completely unrecognisable to professional physicists.

The general public tends to be exceptionally mathematics-averse. Even many people with advanced degrees in fields outside the hard sciences tend to be pretty math-averse.
There's a modest subset of the population that's math-averse but is not averse to trying to learn something qualitative about quantum physics or the Riemann Hypothesis or some other mathematical aspect of the hard sciences and enjoy the satisfaction of feeling like they know _something_ more than they went in, even if the details aren't within their grasp.
In contrast to the rather large subset of the population, even people with college degrees, who are OK with not knowing the first thing about such topics, and tend to prefer it that way.