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  • 24:19 just cause its faster than light doesnt mean that you can go back in time

  • Wait... What!? Man, I'm gonna need to smoke a couple more joints before I can finish watching this.

  • The audio on this sucks and is extremely annoying.

  • Scientists just don't decide not to do experiments because they "know" what the outcome will be!! That's total BS!! This guy even had Richard Feynman's quote "No one understands quantum mechanics" in the slideshow and yet he automatically assumes he knows what the outcome of his quantum entanglement thought experiment will be so he doesn't have to do it!! What the hell?

  • THE EXPERIMENT HE IS DESCRIBING VERY POORLY IS A CLASSIC qp EXPERIMENT THAT PRODUCES BAFFELING REULTS THAT SEEM TO FLY IM THE FACE OF REASON WHAT IS INCREDIBLE IS IT SHOULD TAKE NO LONGER THAN 5 MIN TO DESCRIBE IT THOROUGHLY....LOL....HERE IS THE REAL MYSTERY IN THIS VIDEO !!!! HIS MOUTH IS THE RABBIT HOLE...LOL....CHEERS MAN, BULLY, STEADY ON MATE

  • Cross pattern photons vid.

  • I Really Like The Video From Your The Quantum Conspiracy What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know

  • Your Video Is Very Useful Sharing The Quantum Conspiracy What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know

  • i typed in qm and im happy i did.nice video.

  • very interesting that this is a hypothesis that I arrived at when I was 13 years old , LOL and no I have never conquered algebra much less the high math of QM 

  • Hmm so can anyone sum this up is death real?

  • i was going to comment but reading all the others ive realized i know nothing :-).

  • The alternative interpretations are just the same as the Copenhagen interpretation. They don't tell us how it reality actually is, but rather just provide us a mathematical or "abstract physical description".

  • asking who hasn't played with polarized film or who hasn't heard of double slit. lol what a bunch of geeks. but to be fair, i'd answer "i have" to both of these.

    the circular polarized film found in 3-d glasses are much more fun

  • "electrons and photons are everything *unless you get into nuclear physics*"

    the same nucleus and quarks which make up 99.999% of the mass of ordinary matter?

  • the tripple repeat of everything he says is pissing me off.

  • So if measurement and entanglement are the same...which means that this supports chaos theory?

  • So am I a part of YOUR dream,..or are you a part of mine?

  • This guy just killed my quantum buzz....well, I guess the truth hurts! Thanks a bunch, I was getting ready to create my own universe!......bugger!

  • @00000Me1

    I feel like you must not have watched the entire talk... If I'm not mistaken his view was basically that we're all Boltzman Brains of some sort.

  • This guy has no vision what so ever

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  • There is no such thing as photons. Our space is filled all over with the fundamental matrix of the universe. What these physicist coined as photons are simply wave traveling across this matrix. In fact, the word "space" is simply a misnomer. There is no empty space in this universe. Our "space" is simply a basic infrastructure in which "electromagnetic" waves vibrates at different frequencies. What we called "matter" is simply wave in this basic infrastructure.

  • soounds like he wants to be an official that we will all go to for answers. he sounds like he wants concrete answers to all of this. this souunds like its just a way to make people stop asking questions. if i was smart enough i would leave a more in depth response . soundds about right.

  • Quarks are photon mass

  • John Cramer's "Transactional interpretation" doesn't even get the light of day shone on it. Probably because nobody can quite get their head round it. I live in a universe where phenomena such as precognition & remote viewing are not only possible they are almost certainly real, & the only interpretation that would allow for such things to exist is the Transactional Interpretation. I'm quite certain there is non-linearity in QM somewhere near the high-energy end of the spectrum...

  • The real philosophical problem here, specifically with us being "simulations" is the one concerning the minds of others. How is another mind an illusion of my own mind? Maybe I just didn´t understand how he got to that conclusion (or, an illusion of Garret´s mind didn´t understand his own point, or Garret, my illusion, made a point I didn´t understand). How does the perspective of QM solve this problem? To me that claim of his is the only really metaphysical one.

  • @ThePhilosorpheus I don't think he meant that other people were simulations and only he was "real," but that all of us are "simulations" in the sense that we are not physical entities. We are virtual systems, perhaps running on some sort of hardware, but we ourselves are not physical. We are dynamic information (correlations without correlata).

  • @maplebayou1 Well if so then the problem is even bigger, and double: first the absurd reductionism of his own software programmer perspective applied to a fundamental problem of human existance, second, that this would be the affirmation of a different kind of metaphysics, just a substitution of previous metaphysics and not a non-metaphysical perspective as he claims it to be. By the way it was actually a denial of physics from the beggining, not of metaphysics...

  • @ThePhilosorpheus Exactly.

  • Quantum mechanics's likely intent would be to exemplify any and all potential intelligence' exemplifying what is or can be any intelligence comes within any genre within any construal within any and all physical truths' physical truths might or could be known as anything universal including any and all metaphysical experience which expands any conscious observation' its simply a massive proposition which inhibits many physicists because it links to any theology' Theory-In-Logic

  • Feynman explained the duel split thing with photons as particles.

    that was like the 70s

  • Check out my videos, specifically the one titled "Two Physicists Walk Into A Bar"

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  • I'm going to go one further and assert that some of the "spooky" phenomenon we see during experimentation is CAUSED by the nature and interpretation of the experiment, it's data and results.

  • The S cat biz is nonsense as described. There is no reason to believe that the cat is both alive and dead. The fact that you don't know when it dies, or can't see it is irrelevant. It is a false conundrum. It is a mixing of philosophy and physics...hardly scientific. It actually hinges on the same thinking that occurs in very young children. Ever wonder why a baby finds "peek-a-boo" interesting? People are afraid to "pipe up" and sound stupid. What is stupid is not stating the obvious.

  • Isn't the problem with violating the speed of light really the assumption that there must be a causal connection between the changes that occur in quantum experiments? Could synchronicity, or an acausal principle not yet investigated fully, perhaps initiated by thought or observation, be responsible for the phenomena? Do we really have to solve the problem by theorizing on multiple universes or no universes when the problem and the solution might lie in our own heads?

  • Very unjustifiably dramatic. Most of the underlying ideas here are actually correct, but he's definitely very confused about a lot of things in between. He's totally kidding himself when he suggests that the Copenhagen interpretation allows for superluminal communication. His "EPRG" experiment logic is completely wrong.

  • @cloffff In science, we explain how something is wrong, not simply declare it. That way, others can determine if your analysis is correct. I realize that today, some "science" is conducted by "consensus", like MMGW. That used to be called "fraud".

  • @kenfo0 Im happy to elaborate if its needed, I only mainly didn't bother because there is a huge literature on the subject. The onus should be on the person trying to overturn the scientific consensus (or in this case probably just misinterpreting it).

    The fact that QM/QFT do not allow superluminal communication is basic stuff. One error he makes is that you never just "see an interference pattern". This is strictly a vivid way of describing a probability distribution.

  • @cloffff "The onus should be on the person trying to overturn "....and that was clearly my point. You asserted something w/o backing it up. If one is not going to explain themselves, relying on others to "figure it out" and "read the literature", then there is no point to commenting. I'm just making a point that today, people make statements as if fact w/o backing up the claims, claiming "tha reeserch iz owt their". I understand the problems of the presentation, you likely do as well.

  • @kenfo0 At the end of the day, I cant tell where he makes the critical error. All I know is that he reaches the wrong conclusion based on strict physical logic. I admit its no help to simply allude to the literature, hence my offer to clear anything up (Perhaps you dont need it but maybe someone else does). The mistake I mentioned in my last comment seems to be the most likely culprit of his confusion though.

  • Best lier I've ever seen, the thing is that the guy believes himself.

  • @SomeUser9753 I like the way you can't spell "liar" correctly, but pretend to understand advanced physics...

  • @kenfo0 I don't live in an English speaking country :). And I'm surrounded by people who distort the language when try to use it. You tube is also full of crammatically incorrect comments. Believe me I'm very good with English, or at least I was much better than now. But a liar is a liar. Thanks.

  • @SomeUser9753 use an English spell checker...it will at least help. Now: EXACTLY how is he a 'Liar"? You are accusing him of PURPOSEFULLY saying something untrue?

  • I'm getting stupid when I'm watching it. So you want to tell me that learning this is equivalent to actually becoming stupid and denying the obvious. So he wants to make people think in a far more stupid way than before watching it.

  • @SomeUser9753 You probably already know this, but you're an idiot.

  • @MyChemicalBromance You probably already know this, but idiots like me pushed civilization in the right direction and made man moral and responsible.

  • This guy is a stupid gay, we can put detectors but the phenomenon is gone. Bla bla bla, random my ass. It depends on time and position of the particle when you light it to the slit, so simple just make the experiment with the proper tools. From the data u can easily figure out the way it moves, I think it's a spiral, but notice that it depends on the material of the slit also, so use nanotechnology to do this one and check it out see if there's a difference :). Fucktards. Illuminati fucked them.

  • @SomeUser9753

    Illuminati? Oh, so you're stupid? You should have started with that.

  • I had to chuckle when Garret introduced the "EPRG Paradox". Essentially tacking his own initial at the end of the famous EPR acronym.

    Garret seems to be trying to use mathematics to explain his story about how QM and reality works. That's great.

    Correct me if I'm wrong but I cannot see how the empirical correctness or falsity of his interpretation of the mathematics can be verified or falsified. How do we know that his scenario is more correct than Cramer's without experimental verification?

  • Did your amazon order get canceled? Mine did

  • @thehoneydewkid I actually couldn't graduate from high school in Canada, not being Canadian or of high school age.

    If your implication is that this is basic common knowledge which Canadians are taught, I'm sure I could ask every one of my Canadian friends whether they understand it and get a "no"--and they're each fairly intelligent people who simply never studied the sciences. In fact, I'd bet there isn't a country in the world that makes quantum physics mandatory in primary school.

  • ok, I didn't actually think that was difficult to understand but I have been following quantum physics for quite a while.

  • Omg, I haven't even started listening yet and I am already thinking this is above my head...I just got a pop up search suggestion saying, "if you like this, you may enjoy nuclear physics!" lol.

  • People who know this topic, know that this is already outdated information. The people who don't know quantum mechanics, won't learn anything from this video. I can see how this would be frustrating to some.

  • It looks like 19 smug new atheist know-it-alls didn't like the materialist rug being pulled out from underneath them.

  • @JohananRaatz Atheism relies on physicalism, which is sometimes still called materialism even though it encompasses much more than matter. Materialism as in "matter alone" is discredited by modern science, but a broader physicalism is not. The nature of the physical laws, however, may never be entirely understood.

  • @Megaritz Well true, but if the bottom of reality is something which is conceptual in nature it might allow for science to get into areas that neither atheists nor most religionists would think possible.

  • the means science use to explain the universe always rely on geometrical patterns to explain their non geometrical model.

  • Google Tech Talk, you are a FUCKING IDIOT! I will happily embarrass you any day of the week in a battle of wits! FUCK YOU!!!

  • @evman5000 You are using too many technical terms for most of us....

  • @zargone9 Get a dictionary!

  • @evman5000 : Typical that you wouldn't catch the irony. You aren't the mind to ever be invited to such a talk, & you know it very well. That's where your anger comes from. Nonetheless, your foul-mouthed rant was completely out of place. And you have nothing to say.

  • @zargone9 Silly person...I knew you were being sarcastic...SO WAS I! But thank you for pretending like you have some moral high ground. And, uh, I have PLENTY to say. As far as anger, oh foolish one, you are obviously nowhere near an advanced enough level of comprehension to understand why insane nonsense should be aggressively ridiculed. Don't worry...you MIGHT get it some day! p.s. - "You aren't the mind..." Proper English would be "You haven't the mind...". You can't BE a mind, FOOL!

  • Fucking idiot over-intellectuals are so caught up in USELESS FUCKING THEORY, they act like they are doing something special by speculating on how many stupid fucking universes there are! Jesus fucking imaginary being Christ, focus on simple shit to fix the problems of our stupid-ass civilization! People don't even understand what's in their god damn faces! FUCK YOU and your attention to BULLSHIT!!! DIE, ASSHOLES, DIE!!!

  • @evman5000 without science, our world would not exist the way it does today................... go to school

  • @thehoneydewkid Uh I have a degree in physics fool! I have some idea of what Science has done for us...thanks. I vehemently suggest that we APPLY it in meaningful and beneficial ways rather than on ego-centric attempts to pontificate about useless non-applicable theory!!! Get it???

  • I just wanted to say to anyone who cares to read my "long rant" that they read it from bottom to top(its no "quantum conspiracy")

  • It wouldn't be a google tech talk without some interruption arising from people on the BC with unmuted mics.

  • concilable"

  • @prasoonpandey2000

    Wow, long rant.

    Read the Wikipedia article on "Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics." We've learned more about QM since Feynman's time. Many Worlds is pretty much mainstream physics these days, and it makes much more sense. The reason the Copenhagen interpretation persists is the same reason that physicists in 1900 still doubted the existence of atoms: Physicists, like all humans, tend to "follow the beaten track".

  • @anubhavchattoraj So atleast someone got it

  • enomena.Never mind.The main point is "HOW COULD SUCH QUESTIONS NEVER HAVE BEEN ANSWERED????" doesn't it seem childish to question "things" that have possibly resolved years ago (I read this from an article in Wikipedia "Bohr-Einstein debates" All I could make out was that Bohr or another "quantum physicist" always resolved Einstein's problem incuding the "EPRG paradox") Kindly pardon if I am wrong.It seems like being in the age of 1910 & saying "Hey.Newton's laws & Maxwell's equations are not

  • me?? It seems senseless to me to just come out one day & tell everyone "Hey.did you notice that? Its a conspiracy based on the "Copenhagen interpretation of QM" " WTH?? Do physicists possesss "dumb minds" that they just keep on following the "beaten track" (or the "Copenhagen interpretation of QM)"???? I don't think so.these guys always try to find "holes" in their own theories (what would they do others' theories!!!!) Feynman always insisted that QED doesn't explain gravitation & the nuclear ph

  • i want to make it very clear that i don't know a DAMN THING about this subject except a sort of "general knowledge".Planck started it or Einstein started it(as you wish) But still i'm sensible enough to know that a group of "human beings" have always been endeavouring to find out the TRUTH.We call them physicists.WTH does "Copenhagen interpretation" mean??? Richard Feynman,Gell-Mann & many more have lived after that.If such "holes" would exist in the theory would it have survived the test of ti

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  • there seems to be an echo when he talks lol he is trying to trip people out lol

  • Excuse me,19:30 is EPIC!!!!!!!

  • 16:40 is EPIC!!!!!!!! AHHH!!!

    

  • i was hoping to learn to impress ppl at bbq's but now i realised i am too stupid for this

  • any good books on quantum information theory as the "zero worlds" interpretation?

  • quantum mechanics - is the math of God.

    we now understand this is all an illusion -what we call reality-

    its all energy E=MC2 ... and now ... is the only time ... NOW is the

    only time you can change. when you think of the past or the future

    you are wasting you time. because it is all in the NOW.

    that just one of the weird things in QM - energy - its all energy or

    a halogram - your living a program - and the rabbit hole is as deep as you want to go.

  • has this been peer reviewed?

  • @JamesTR4 Yes, actually Seth Lloyd's book "Programming the Universe" is essentially on the same thing. He proved that there is an isomorphic relation between the Standard Model and quantum computation theory -thereby demonstrating that the world is actually a quantum computer program. (aka -you're in the Matrix) ;)

  • I agree whole heartedly with Mr. Garret. I too went through a similar 3 year path of research and subsequent shock at the flakey foundation underneath the Copenhagen interpretation. I was so shocked by this discovery that I decided to crystalize my findings in a book ("The gods of science") targeting an audience without the mathematical understanding exposed in this video.

  • Last time I checked measurement simply disturbed entanglement, without causing quantum states of the non-measured particles, and yet this guy claims measuring one entangled particle changes the state of the other, is this RIGHT?

  • @avrilinblood He is not suggesting that measurement changes a particle. On the contrary, he is arguing that measurement is simply entanglement between the measurer and the measuree.

  • @avrilinblood this is right! check wikipedia on entanglement!

  • @JamesTR4 Nope, it is NOT right, it is complete BS, entangled particles are created in opposition based on the laws of conservation of energy, measuring what one of the entangled particles is simply answers what is the spin/orientation of the other particle, check wave function collapse - any kind of measurement collapses the so called entanglement, and in fact no transfer of information is possible using entangled particles...

  • @avrilinblood Ur first answer was right. Now u are just saying stuff about information i didn't agree to. I know better than you what entanglement is, without checking sources. The wavefunction collapses for both particles. Now the term entanglement collapse doesn't make sense, so don't use that. Transfer of information can be done. But not faster than light. So if u wanna make a plan, and send both particles, the two fleets will make different plans and work together.

  • @JamesTR4 Feel free to register to physicsforums or any other legit and recognized physics community to verify that entanglement does not allow any transfer of information, best case scenario it transfers random gibberish. Don't feel obligated to argue with me, go and ask the experts...

  • @avrilinblood Ur wrong. It does transfer information, just classically. No need to ask experts, u are just confused because i didn't explain clearly. If you have an entangled pair, and send one to andromeda and keep the other one here, then if u tell them to destroy a black hole if they perform measurement A, or wait if B, and u do the opposite, you will always do opposite stuff. It's the same as if u sent socks of different colors. You transfer the information classically, not faster than light

  • @JamesTR4 You don't even need QM to transfer information in a classical way. You can't transfer any information using entanglement without a classical communication link. Entanglement doesn't transfer any information at any speed period. It is the classical comm link which does all the information transfer, not the entangled particles.

  • @avrilinblood You are wrong because measurement does cause the quantum states of the non-measured particles to be in opposite to what you just measured. So, although the experiment is random, You know that the other guys wavefunction has collapsed. We cannot get information from that, but it does collapse a wavefunction millions of light years apart. that's why einstein called it spooky action at a distance...

  • @JamesTR4 You say "millions of light years apart" - but you totally pull this one out your ass, trying to pimp your sorry ass argument with HUGEEEE NUMBEERS, in fact according to latest research the so called collapse is not instantaneous, it is orders of magnitude faster than luminal but not instantaneous. Please stop posting BS, take hold of your ego and go back 120 years and learn Maxwell's original quaternion equations, Maxwell's physics, unlike GR CAN BE QUANTIZED and explains QM perfectly!

  • @avrilinblood Your so called research hasn't been peer reviewd and is just speculation. I suggest some humanity lessons together with ur formal education, if not only to dissolve the venom...

  • Oh Jesus, this is not even nearly as simple as I thought it was supposed to be. Guess I need to take a physics class before I can get what the hell he's talking about.

  • @addemfrench @addemfrench or you could graduate from high school...................... Well...... in Canada atleast.

  • I haven't finished watching this video yet but I have to say that I'm following and interested in it because my intuitions tell me there is a lot of misunderstanding about the true nature of the quantum world. I think it's been bastardized by a lot of new age gurus out there and quite frankly exploited for profit. Something just doesn't seem right about the interpretation of the roll of the observer and I'm hoping this video will "shed some light" (through a double slit LOL) on that topic.

  • @Snooznuluz Indeed, I always found the anthropocentrism in the Copenhagen interpretation untenable, but this approach (essentially the relational interpretation) is even more revolutionary in its implications. It seems that philosophical materialism is very much under threat here. It was already looking haggard with non-locality, but here it seems to be disappearing in a puff of information processing. Perhaps he is over-reaching, but if so, where is the magic quantum/classical boundary?

  • Interesting video! I am an artist on YouTube trying to promote my theory on the dynamics of light and time

    This theory is based on just two simple postulates

    1. The first is that the quantum wave particle function explained by Schrödinger’s wave equation represents the forward passage of time itself

    2. The second is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle that is formed by the wave function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event

  • Let me see if I got this. Measurement is collapsing the wavefunction and a collapsed wave is matter? Splitting universes may be real, just like our own universe that in fact doesn't exist at all. How stupid is this question?: How can a universe that doesn't exist split in two?

  • very early days ? or years ? cuz 2000 is a year and march fifth is a day

  • All the might of Google ... and still shite sound - COME ON!!

  • who the hell really watched this

  • My honest question is, what made this guy think he could successfully pull off this talk?

  • mmm Mr Garrison askin about the polarization at 28:55 mmmmmkkkkk

  • i probably respect the speaker as a software engineer, but not as an authority on QM. he self-proclaims he is not a physicist so why oh why did he delve into the math?! particularly wave equations. i found his presentation to be disordered. his claim that we dont need to carry out the "experiment" because it is not warranted to be completely against what science stands for. stay in the programming cubicle my friend.

  • i had to pee, but i didnt want to get up. So then i peed in a bottle and noticed how the light was getting polarized by the pee. I have learned something today my friends and that i shall share with the world!

  • Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity does not *explicitly* forbid faster than light communication - I would argue that the Lorentz Contraction when used as an operator for relativistic motion precludes faster than light communication due to the mathematical result of requiring matter to acquire an infinite energy at velocity C.

  • The most hilarious part was at the end where he avoids a technical question by saying "you can't understand, you're a Turing machine running on a quantum computer". You can tell he has no idea what the question even was.

  • This guy was hoping to win a Nobel Prize? Wow, talk about delusional.

  • @gendou2 Wow you're dense. It was a joke.

  • @gendou2 That " guy" is making a sincere and rational inquiry. He put a great deal of time and energy to explore this question. Rather than call names, make some attempt at sincere inquiry.... or sincere response. Perhaps you understand better and can explain it to me.

  • @merylste My response did address the philosophical and technical mistakes in this talk, it was my sincere attempt at "inquiry".

    I don't question his intentions are sincere, but I do question the rational of his approach.

    He seems to be strongly anti-establishment, which is a bias that reduces the strength of his argument.

    Plus, he made several technical mistakes!

    Oh, and I did NOT call names. I said his joke was delusional.

    I recognize he was making a joke, but a strange and sad one.

  • He says there is "no randomness" in the Schrodinger equation. But the whole point of having a wave function is so that you can square it to get the probability of finding your particle! That's where randomness comes into the picture. This is not "a hack" any more than Newton's inverse square law is "a hack".

  • His thought experiment for superluminal communication is wrong. By turning your which-path detector on, you lose decoherence with any entangled partners. Your partner will observe normal light, and only know it was entangled with yours when comparing data sets of photons measured in a coherent (entangled) state. Duh.

  • His experiment with polarizing plastic sheets does not invalidate the Copenhagen interpenetration. He seems to misunderstand erasure. Light doesn't need to "lose" any information "as it travels" through the successive sheets. Light selects the most probable path. It does NOT calculate it's own path from start to finish, in that order.

  • @gendou2 The wave equations have to be re-written from the start when we add new polarizing sheets. That is where the Copenhagen interpretation fails in my view. The whole idea of "collapse," it seems to me, is that it occurs at a specific time. The Orwellian-style erasure of so-called "collapse" events invalidates this notion..

  • Measurement and entanglement are aspects of sense. Sense is what the cosmos and the psyche have in common, and therefore the deepest underlying reality. Personally, I doubt the existence of photons as independent entities, but are instead examples of what could literally be called physical 'common sense'. A photosemantic sharing of signifying experience as distinct from generic exterior processes which are a-signifying.

  • At the big bang all particles were in one location and were entangled. Nature has a use for QE..it seems obvious the universe is a quantum computer and QE is how data is sent between the protons or qubits.

  • I wish techtalk speakers would use a wireless mouse pointerdoohicky rather than a laser pointer so that us outside the room can tell what the hell they are pointing at on the slide while talking.

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  • This stuff always makes me feel dumb.

  • I wish I was smart enough to understand all this. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

  • The universe is both infinite and an illusion.

  • Seems measurement takes at least two electrons and two photons, at least one of each from each side of the transaction, although it also seems that typically it's described as a photon to electron transaction. I suppose background at least gets involved in a net-neutral sense, beyond equilibriating/setting electron states, including virtual (sub-heisenberg) compensations. Photons seem to be on the heisenberg boundary, coherence taking over by full-cycle phase-jumps, on to resonance capacity. JMO

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  • why can't we leave physics to physicists? this guys smugness on the topic is nauseating. no one understands it...let us explore until we do.

  • @brmorrison61 If you see something specific that is in error, by all means point it out. Otherwise requests to "leave physics to physicists" ring pretty hollow in my ears. As far as I can tell the guy understands QM quite well.

  • I probably should stick to using "observer" and "observed" for thiese. Anyway, if there is a resonance/measurement thing happening and a coherence in a stream of "observeds" seen by a single "observer" it seems conceivable the observer and observed are both consistently complementing each other in sequence and as an XOR-type run this ends up looking like the process classically called "consistency" and that could be a big part in the transition of subspaces, aka "collapse", process, I guess.

  • One thing quantum measurement seems to emphasize is the balanced mutuality of the ultimate interaction at the boundary of probe and probed. It seems that measuring a spin-up state involves the probee compelling a spin-down probe state appearance. Seems natural to think the probe's causal tip has substantial environmental plasticity and yet substantial internal elasticity, significantly reboundable and, in effect, substantially complementing its own previous state as a consequence of measurement.

  • As stated, “erasure” of human observations is possible in principle, which violates very fundamental assumptions of the scientific endeavor. This revolutionary implication of QM is completely lost on most people. Popular accounts continue to treat measurement as something that occurs at a very specific time and is irreversible. Unfortunately he seems to have had insufficient time to really make these connections clearly.

  • The big problem, which he hits on only tangentially, is time. Despite his references to wave functions "before erasure" and "after erasure" the equations have to be configured FOR THE EXPERIMENT AS A WHOLE. As he says, there is nothing discontinuous in the math. There is nothing in the equations that reflects a specific time at which entanglement or measurement occurs. This is exactly why "erasure" is possible.

  • So, is the Hubble telescope collapsing wave functions?

  • @foremski - Using the Copenhagen interpretation of QM, yes; it is a measuring/detecting device.

  • Schroedinger disagrees - reality is made of waves.

    "What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Particles are just schaumkommen (appearances). The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist." (Erwin Schroedinger)

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  • Most people get the wrong idea about what is going on.

    In order to detect/observe you must collapse the wave function.

    The only way the photon detectors can work is to catch the photons as they go through the slits, which then destroys the experiment.

  • @MrHurricaneFloyd As he said, the wavefunction doesn't collapse- that's the Copenhagen model and it has been discredited

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  • @wolfekeeper It wasn't so much that the wavefunction had collapsed (that part is essentially still true) it was that they said it was ACAUSAL -without cause - ie shutup and don't worry. (Actually very good advice). Einstein was very unhappy about that. Now the vid is saying the photon wave function is still relevant, you have to entangle the particle with the apparatus itself, and that my friend produces the reality we see.

  • Quantum Mechanics for dummies! Well done. Many worlds is "magical thinking" not physics. The ideas Ron puts forward here are not his own of course, Cerf and Adami presented these ideas a whilst ago. If you haven't already realised it, the really nice thing about this new picture is that entropy is conserved - the positive part follows thermodynamics, the imaginary numbers complete the book-keeping. Moral: Man is not omnipresent and all knowing. He is in the universe and of the universe.

  • @kaller99 - Many Worlds is a valid interpretation of the math; no less magical than a Zero World simulation. Many Minds seems to resolve them both. I'm not stating one way or the other. I'm just speaking regarding valid interpretations of the math.

  • @BigMTBrain - Hi BB, you are replicating your entire universe without physical mechanism. Sure it may still be zero sum, but you are doubling all the mass in the form of mass etc. Virtual particles would have to double the universe and then not, depending on the local configurations in each universe. ie Its all baloney. Serious physicists don't entertain Everett's model. Science fiction writers and new age quantists however love this junk.

  • @kaller99 - You're sounding a bit religious as no interpretation has been declared true. From Wikipedia:Many Worlds: "Conservation of energy is not violated since the energy of each branch has to be weighted by its probability, according to the standard formula for the conservation of energy in quantum theory. This results in the total energy of the multiverse being conserved." Read more in the "Common objections and misconceptions" section. "Serious physicists don't..." Hmm. Sure about that?

  • @BigMTBrain Really? Read the title again - Its exactly about what popular notions and popularisers say - is baloney. A lot of the so called explanations in wikis are just plain wrong too. For example you can find it "explained" in wikis that QM is just for small things.Go buy a real textbook on theoretical physics. See how many chapters Everett gets.

  • @kaller99 and incidentally - FWIW - if you look at that gobbledegook about weighting the energy across universes you will see its baloney. 30% of the energy in universe A and 70% in universe B, sure its conserved. But that is a far cry from "In 30% of the universes" or "in 70% of the universes". Sure you can interpret quantum theory to give you an infinite instantaneous energy supply to make this math, but I prefer not to.

  • @kaller99 So Everett's cat is dead and alive in two universes, one cat plus one cat is two cats. LOL

  • @kaller99 - "Its exactly about [...] baloney" - Did you not hear Garret at the end? MW is as plausible as 0W... that 0W is his preference? Re percentages: "...infinite instantaneous energy supply..." Your conception is off: A "split" is a split. Energy of particles is relative only to other particles within a given universe. If you start with an Energy of 1, what is the limit of division if each universe drops to an energy level which conserves the cumulative total energy at 1?

  • This talk is in good alignment with Brian Whitworth's virtual reality hypothesis, you should look it up if you are interested in this subject. It is more complete than this talk as it also explains relativity and to some extent cosmology. Look it up! :)

  • I think this guy is confusing "measurement" with "calculation." Calculation gives us some understanding of the results of the measurement -- they are not the same thing.

  • Quantum suck ass explanation. You need to already have familiarity with quantum mechanics to understand him.

  • I think I would have preferred hearing this from a physicist.

  • I mentioned "one has to wait for an adequately-redundant sequence to occur in a string of random events produced by streams of photons." Speculative, but I guess it could be a balanced sequence (and its complement) that is agreed upon beforehand, or long strings of all ones (and its complement), the key parameter apparently being the sequence length and how much noise/loss is tolerable for a match, i.e. how reliable should the resulting classical-rate information be.

  • I wrote: "Using only one pair of photons means there is signal loss, which limits information rate." Clearer would be to say "using only one pair of photons means inevitable signal loss is critical and it critcally limits the information rate of detection."

    Seems one has to wait for an adequately-redundant sequence to occur in a string of random events produced by streams of photons in order to be sure of the decision, t