lain@lain@lain.com
okay so i saw a video that claimed that you can get all of special relativity without fixing light speed

and it seems that's true.

and i know that you can get (presumably) all of QED via pilot wave stuff, which has no 'quantum weirdness' (except for non-locality, but nobody cared about that before einstein).

so is all the last hundred years of physics just people caring too much about single interpretations of much broader ideas?
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@lain
>you can get all of special relativity without fixing light speed
This is true, but the finite speed of light was already well established by the time special relativity was come up with. In many ways, special relativity was just a better explanation of already-confirmed theories such as electrodynamics.

As for QM, I'm less well versed in that, but if I remember correctly it's very difficult to explain experimental results using deterministic models. And it's a common misconception that experts in the field are unanimous in how they interpret quantum mechanics; the Copenhagen interpretation is the most popular, but not a majority. https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/pys-quantum.pdf