2011 is quite dated for Physics.
BLM says quantum mechanics is RAYCISS!
Sheldon Cooper knows.
> But some researchers want to dig deeper. <
They are free to do that, as long as Quantum Theory hasn’t been declared to be Settled Science. It is forbidden to question Settled Science!
“Oddness and confusion of quantum mechanics will melt away”
Oh, those quantum mechanics running around in their overalls waving socket wrenches and demanding to be paid in jello.
“Scientists.....still don’t know what it means.”
It’s like everything is connected by strings and if you strum the string.....
Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah
Someone’s in the kitchen I know o o o
Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah
Strummin on the old banjo
Sure was a lot of fun to strum Dinah’s banjo.
It means you have no clue what you are looking at.
Schrodinger’s cat is dead.
quantum physics is the modern day equivalence of asking how many angels can dance on a pinhead. and makes as much sense.
I have spoken to quite a few physicists who tell me that you have to suspend disbelief in order to grasp it.
Calling Sheldon Cooper.
I found it amazing that this article didn’t mention pilot waves, or the very interesting explanations they offer for many quantum phenomena.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC0ygr08tE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ
The cool thing about pilot waves is they don’t involve randomness - they’re deterministic, yet exhibit statistical properties similar to QM. No more “playing dice with the universe” - it’s just that humans don’t have the technology to detect the pilot waves directly.
BTW, de Broglie hypothesized this exact mechanism early on, but the strictly probability based “Copenhagen interpretation” became the accepted theory instead. We’ll see if some clever physicists can come up with experiments that definitely show which is correct.
How would they know that two “entangled” particles “communicate” over a distance, when quantum theory says that if you examine something at the quantum level you CHANGE IT? Eh?
What’s really stupid is when someone applies quantum uncertainty to something larger than an atom, such as the Universe, or an imaginary cat. Universes popping in and out of existence. Cats being dead and alive. Sorry, but that’s not science. It’s science fiction.
The only thing I get from reading popular literature on Quantum Physics is a certainty that reality is not at all what we think it is.
The difference between science and screwing around is taking notes.
Is it even possible that there are things that can’t be understood or explained by man?
Something as ubiquitous as gravity, for instance. While it’s something that is pretty obvious, and physicist know that gravity is a property of mass, they don’t understand how gravity works, or what the source of it is.
Mark
“Some physicists just shrug and say we have to live with the fact that quantum mechanics is weird. So particles can be in two places at once, or communicate instantaneously over vast distances? Get over it.”
But if you believe in God, you’re weird and irrational.
They should ask jaden smith for help. He knows all about quantum theory, he’s always saying he does.