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This article could have been written by an algorithm. Everyone knows the meme about Quantum Mechanics being incomprehensible, like, ~"if you understand quantum
by B1tchard0 10y ago
This article could have been written by an algorithm.
Everyone knows the meme about Quantum Mechanics being incomprehensible, like, ~"if you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics".
Quantum Mechanics requires randomness, because determinism is scary.
Both probability and fate are functions of time, and time is the most interesting thing to look at.
Generally, Time is ignored, or at best "accounted for".
As a programmer I think time is more interesting than particles or fields or probabilities of wave-function whatever
- AgentME 10y ago>Quantum Mechanics requires randomness, because determinism is scary. Isn't the many-worlds interpretation generally regarded as deterministic?
- n4r9 10y agoYes, as is de-Broglie-Bohm interpretation. Some others make no assertions about determinism. I interpreted "because determinism is scary" as a tongue-in-cheek aside. Either way, time is not ignored: there is serious research effort into the concept of time in quantum mechanics.
- naasking 10y agoIIRC, it's deterministic in a sense that isn't equivalent to the way de Broglie-Bohm is deterministic. The latter is generally what people mean by deterministic, ie. it's a classical theory with an extra term to account for quantum influences.
- n4r9 10y agoBoth theories model the universe as being in a definite, non-probabilistic state, and that the state at one time determines the state at all future times. But yeah there is some difference in the anthropocentric aspects, i.e. how our observation of probabilities actually arises.