Don't drink the Quantum Koolaid - The Hangover

A video response to one of my popular early videos!

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• physics
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• philosophy
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• skeptic
• athiest

[otonanoC]

As metaphysicians, we must face this paradox head-on, with the eventual goal of resolving it.

[otonanoC]

A C-70 fullerene is shot through a vacuum and thend a diffraction grating. In accordance with the path-integral formulation, the fullerene "takes all possible paths" and those paths interfere with each other. The result is an interference pattern. But if small gas molcules are placed in the vacuum, the fullerenes sometimes collide with them, and the interference vanishes. Did the fullerene molecule actually have a distinct trajectory or did it take all possible paths?

[busplunger]

@2farscape2 that can even be true within the scientific community ,sadly.

[2farscape2]

@busplunger And then there are the even more tragic ones who have eyeballs, are reminded to look at the experiments, and refuse to do so.

[ohwhererehwho]

Just as we have a subset of the population seen to be extreme in their belief in God.and overlay their belief with dogma (a set of rules to live by), there is a subset of the population who believe that all of everything can be understood in terms of theoretical physics (and its supporting mathematics). Here lies the delemma! Our human nature leads us to dogma! God is a grand master mathematician, setting the laws of nature into motion, but mathematics is not God.

[busplunger]

Some people believe that their own eyeballs are creating the universe bit by bit, until you remind them that blind people exist too.

[astrotometry]

BTW I'm not endorsing The Pondicherry interpretation, I was a "hidden variable" guy like Einstein until I came up with The Common Medium Carrier Hypothesis which is a paradigm shift in it's own "quantum camp". See my site if you're interested. The Pondicherry paper hit's the very real issues though indicated by the observations, but it's basically a patch to try to keep the Copenhagen guys from falling into Many Worlds. (Fail)

[astrotometry]

If you're interested in some light reading, google "The Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics" and try to digest Ulrich Mohrhoff's paper on the Cern site. It goes in depth to the inherent mathematical conundrums of time-space-movement, observational simultaneity, and treating the (quantum) physical nature of the observer. The false abstractions introduced by the Newtonian maths are, unfortunately.... nested. Happy studies, Kyle. Good to see you on YT again.

[astrotometry]

We don't know the laws of physics yet, and the best minds will tell you that we probably never will.

[MrPlender]

Haha. Great to have you back!