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  • 15-10-2018 11:22pm
    #1
    QuintusFabius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭



    Uou think he has some good points ?
    Or is he like that Depak Chopra guy and is using people's lack of understanding to spout pseudo science bollocks ?

    From what I understand about quantum physics - this whole uncertainty is at the atomic level - not the macroscopic level - so that alone tells me this is bollocks.


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  • #2
    Morbert
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    Quantum mechanics is certainly at odds with our classical intuitions, and there's plenty of examples of quantum phenomena that make us utter "woah! weird!".

    But (contrary to what the speaker implies) quantum mechanics isn't some dialectic mass of contradictions. Like classical physics, it is a consistent theory with equations that describe regularities in what we observe.

    But but quantum mechanical descriptions of reality are typically in the context of observations. If we try to interpret a quantum mechanical description of reality independent from some observational context, we may end up with either a multiplicity of worlds ( https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/ ) or a multiplicity of descriptions which, if combined, contradict one another ( https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-consistent-histories/ ).

    The video is woo, but not quite Chopra woo.


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