4 ms·
This is what I think he means. Considered as a whole rather than individual persons, humanity understands how to apply quantum mechanics, in particular, to col
by grhino 16y ago
This is what I think he means.
Considered as a whole rather than individual persons, humanity understands how to apply quantum mechanics, in particular, to collapse the wave function. However, few or no individuals actually intuitively understand the subtle details of modern quantum mechanics.
If you can take the perspective of humanity as an entity which can "understand" things, then humanity knows a lot more than any individual knows.
- ThomPete 16y agoThere are many things that humans know intuitively and have known for centuries. They just haven't known why something works a given way. It's the ability to explain it that makes you understand it.
- Retric 16y agoPlenty of people teach QM, but they don't have an intuitive understanding of it. Evolution has enabled us to have a solid grasp of what baseballs do, but things 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,00th of that volume don't behave like baseballs.
- ThomPete 16y agoYes they teach the math and the experiments like Bells theorem. They teach what we know about QM. But that is not the same as there is nothing more to understand, that all puzzles have been solved. There are how many different interpretations of QM? 10+ well known and however many not so known. None of them are able to explain everything without: 1. Introducing some kind of quantum weirdness 2. Asking for a leap of faith 3. Explains it in n dimensions but doesn't allow for predictions.