Physicists do say these things about quantum mechanics — a highly-mathematical description of fundamental reality at the bottom of which is the uncertainty principle in which the act of measuring one piece of reality screws up other measurements. The upshot is, the whole of reality isn’t measureable all at once. The more you think about it, the worse it gets. At some point, physicists say, the whole discussion starts to sound less like physics than philosophy.
Once I heard a physicist say some quantum thing was “highly theoretical” and since he had an accent, I wasn’t sure I heard him right.
“You didn’t say, ‘highly theological?’ did you?” I said.
“Yes,” he said.
Once I went to a talk by a philosopher of physics and I’m never doing that again.
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