[cscheid]

Sean Carroll talks a bit about this kind of problem here, (albeit when discussing the distinction between "coordinate space" and "momentum space") where we perceive the world in one way, but a lot of physics seems gears towards either one of the worldviews, and the question then is "why the hell?"

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/11/10/against-...

[andrewcooke]

that's a good point - this is a more general issue than qm. ugh. slideshare is awful [oh; advice to expand to fullscreen makes all the difference. good slides; wish i understood more]