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Yeah, I am aware of Bell's theorem. What I am saying is that the hidden variable hypothesis is nonetheless a good mental model as a first approximation to reas
by stephc_int13 3y ago
Yeah, I am aware of Bell's theorem.
What I am saying is that the hidden variable hypothesis is nonetheless a good mental model as a first approximation to reason about QE, say as a non-professional physicist.
People get confused, especially sci-fi authors, adding to the general confusion about anything touching Quantum Physics being almost magical/limitless or unexplainable. This is a lot more pedestrian in practice.
- graemep 3y agoIt do not think sci-fi authors are confused, but just willing to live with inaccuracy for the sake of the story and universe building. Its like faster than light travel - you need to find some excuse to make something work. I very much doubt Ursula Le Guin thought we could build an ansible (FTL comms) any more than Larry Niven thinks the Teela Brown gene (heritable luck) is real.
- vidarh 3y agoHaving written two scifi novels and with plans for more, indeed while I will assure you many of us are still confused, I also think most have a better than average grasp of this. For my part, the limited FTL in my books is a very deliberate violation of my (poor) understanding of quantum mechanics, and it'll be a plot point to restrict the violation further than apparent by the first couple of books... It is a really tough topic to get an intuition for, though.