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11.6. MICROSCOPIC CASINO 61
11.6 Microscopic Casino
Statistical Mechanics is a macroscopic mathematical model based on an assumption
of “molecular chaos” that is a microscopic statistical model. But a
statistical model represents some form unpredictable microscopics, and thus
statistical mechanics is based on
• microscopics of microscopics.
The difficulty with such a model is that it is impossible to directly test the
basic statistical assumptions of the model, because they as microscopics are
beyond inspection. Testing of the model can thus only be made indirectly
on the macroscopic level, as pointed out by Einstein:
• Neither Herr Boltzmann nor Herr Planck has given a defnition of W...
Usually W is put equal to the number of complexions. In order to calculate
W, one needs a complete (molecular-mechanical) theory of the
system under consideration. Therefore it is dubious whether the Boltzmann
principle has any meaning without a complete molecularmechanical
theory or some other theory which describes the elementary processes
(and such a theory is missing).
11.7 Formality as Reality
Modern theoretical physicists have been educated to believe that mathematical
formulas can reveal a deep truths about reality way beyond the comprehension
of the physicists writing down the formulas: It is a from of kabbalistic
science where signs on a piece of paper become deeply meaningful. This is
demonstrated by the
• Lorentz transformation of special relativity,
which is a simple linear coordinate transformation, believed to reveal some
deep truths about the space and time we are part of, truths which are so
startling, contradictory and contra-intuitive that an endless number of books
have been written to explain what the meaning is without clarifying anything.
Other examples of such overinterpretations of mathematical formulas are:
• Schrödinger’s linear multidimension wave equation with solutions without
physical interpretation.