Three Things about Quantum Physics

1. As Richard Feynman said, if you think you know about quantum physics, then you don't know about quantum physics.

2. As Murray Gell-Mann said, a lot of people try to explain difficult and somewhat mysterious seeming concepts (consciousness, free will, etc) by invoking quantum physics, just because it is equally difficult and mysterious. Gell-Man called this 'quantum flapdoodle'.

3. Robert Anton Wilson defined the Copenhagen Interpretation (a way of regarding quantum physics devised by Neils Bohr et al in the 1920's) as follows; "The equations of Quantum Physics do not describe the material world, rather they describe what structures of thought we need to create in order to understand that world".

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[airrunwesker]

WOW! So... would our world simply be a pool of micro worlds, made up of each person's interpretation?

[conferencereport]

I think it is more that our ability to understand such things as quantum theory is constrained by our cognitive abilities, which are tuned to the demands of what Richard Dawkins calls 'middle sized objects moving at middle speed'. The interpretations we produce are more like metaphors than concrete facts, although they don't have to be individual. Scientific theories are our shared, collective metaphors, what Dawkins (again) calls 'the poetry of reality'.

[xy11xy]

See June 2011 issue of "Scientific American"... Title article Quantum World

[mssharpie]

this is a poorly made video.i'm not certain but i suspect the narrator may have insulted stewart hammeroff here.stewart hammeroff is a HIGHLY trained doctor.he has worked very closely with roger penrose ( a physicist) to bring about his ideas.

[airrunwesker]

But don't we alter this world a little everytime we think about it?

[shahafsagi]

So is life real or not? XD

[anisj]

Wow, you are really smart. Are you a Professor? Your just the type of role model i need.