John Carlos Baez on Nostr: nprofile1q…cvgna - I wouldn't say it's hand-wavy. I'd just say the math is too hard ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq0l88929ze7h5h7g7pu7y0e0077c03zqtp9zk63zpx4gg7m2ypcnqmcvgna (nprofile…vgna) - I wouldn't say it's hand-wavy. I'd just say the math is too hard for anyone in the human race, presently. So we make a bunch of approximations we can't completely justify, we do calculations, and we get answers that are often in spectacular agreement with experiment (in one case up to 10 significant figures) - so we feel we're probably on the right track.