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To: Sir_Ed

I know. It’s a difficult concept.

But it’s kind of like my sunglasses example. The view (of the universe) does NOT exist until I chose a pair of sunglasses. And I have no way of picking one pair of sunglasses instead of the other.

QM exists in a kind of world where there are many dimensions. Actually, an infinite number of dimensions. But not just dimensions like we are used to like time and space. Other dimensions, like mass and charge and velocity and position and more and more and more dimensions.

I think it was Bohr who said something like “If you think you understand QM, you obviously don’t, because NOBODY does or even can.”

A good book about it is “Quantum Mechanics and Experience” by David Z Albert of Columbia University.


102 posted on 11/19/2011 6:07:42 PM PST by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: djf

What a strange concept. I don’t understand in the slightest.

Thanks for the book recommendation, I’ll get it and see what it says.

See ya’,

Ed


104 posted on 11/20/2011 12:19:43 AM PST by Sir_Ed
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