Quantum Mechanics - Once And For All (What the bleep do you know?)

Ok, so I went shopping in my neighborhood grocery store and this guy was there and he had a conversation with the clerk about what he thinks god is. Knowing me the clerk immediately pulled me in to the conversation and unfortunately I found myself listening to a 20 minutes monologue about his quasi-religious new age theory backed up by sum new age pseudo-science mambo jumbo he picked up in the notorious film -- 'What the bleep do we know', which is almost as bad as 'The Secret'.

Now this guy started rambling about quantum mechanics, and super-positioning, and single slit, and double slit, and Schrodinger's cat, and entanglement, and non-locality, and energy and atoms, etc. etc. And in twenty minutes this guy managed to spew out about 50 terms which I later found out he didn't even know how to describe (here's a test: Next time someone comes up to you and uses the word Energy, ask him what Energy is...).

Well this video is dedicated for him, and for all of those that try to use mathematical equations that describe physical phenomena to try to infer something about the reality in which we live.

After I explain shortly the Schrodinger's cat I give another example of a theory which was incredibly accurate and ground breaking - Newton's Theory of Gravity which in a way adhered in the age of reason, and made a lot of people draw ungrounded conclusions from (such as determinism, god's way of conducting the universe, gravity is instantaneous and so on). Only then came Einstein and with his theory of General Relativity showed that Newton's equations were only part of the picture and drew for us the way we look at the world and understand the relation between the curves in space-time and the apparent gravitational pull. Showing that even if you have a theory, like Quantum Mechanics, which is extremely accurate, the equations brought forth by the theory do not necessarily mean they represent reality as it "really" is.

Here are a few links for the stuff I discuss in the video:
Schrödinger's cat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

Wigner's friend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend

Quantum Wave Function
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function

Ensemble Interpretation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Interpretation

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[scooterguy86]

You are an interesting debater. I like the point that you can use equations to try to understand reality but that reality itself is not a set of equations. Great video.

[Joniversity]

@scooterguy86 Thanks :-)

[EricZombie]

I was going to do a video on Schrodinger's Cat. Good stuff!

[Joniversity]

@EricZombie if you wish you can mirror it, or use any of the graphics i made for it. Glad you liked it.

[StopFear]

I think you're one of the good guys because you like cats. I saw a video where an atheist presents this cat argument to a creationist in Hungtington Beach and Creationist presents good arguments against it. If you want I can send you the link

[Joniversity]

@StopFear Wow i would love to debate that guy - he's a worthy adversary, sharp and quick... though i will pwn him of course but he might make it a little hard. Thanks for pointing this to me. an absolute joy. Ok i'm going back to it now.

[bobbymay2509]

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." Nikola Tesla

Your ending explanation reminded me of this.

[amaxamon]

Oh man, I just went through this with a woo-head, and it was a waste of time. I feel your pain! 

[PrestonwoodCowards]

*sigh* Schrodinger's cat is annoying because a lot of people draw the irrational conclusion that reality (not just our understanding of reality) is entirely subjective, or that every possible outcome is simultaneously true (somehow), I actually heard Michio Kaku of all people (perhaps not surprisingly) say this on The Infidel Guy Show. I don't really know how they reach such conclusions because they don't seem to logically follow from the thought experiment and seem to miss the point.

[EndRacism2011]

"peace. love. harmony" You love mongerer!! How could you promote peace, love and harmony?.....What's the big deal man? So they make a film that (to sum it up) says think kind thoughts toward urself and ur companion.. sounds kinda like good common sense.. then they back it up with the water crystal experiment.. sounds cool to me. So the average person knows nothing about anything (scientifically speaking) however if you get people loving themselves or others-- what the bleep is wrong with that?

[Changeling9au]

@Joniversity

Oh! Nearly forgot - the YT channel Thunderboltsproject has videos which go into the links between catastrophism and EU theory.

Some other interesting sites are Thunderbolts inf0

holoscience c0m

saturniancosmology 0rg

watch?v=5EaUA8KYt7Q

[Changeling9au]

@Joniversity

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...the scientific priesthood...erhum...I mean, establishment, it has all but been ignored by the so-called "Truth Movement" who seem to prefer embracing exotic alien theories (as per Sitchin, etc.) to explain the same phenomena as Velikovsky was, or to freak themselves out with "Occult Masonic Kabbalistic Zionist Satanist" symbols and their associated theories - most of which involve the...gasp...shock..."ANTI-CHR­IST"...[wipes sweat of brow].

btw - check out watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc