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I got turned off of this stuff in college. The whole probability wave business has always smelled like smoke and mirrors to me. Schrodinger's cat has always s
by pdx 14y ago
I got turned off of this stuff in college. The whole probability wave business has always smelled like smoke and mirrors to me. Schrodinger's cat has always smelled to me as well ... especially a few days after the experiment, even if I didn't open the box...
I like this Occam's razor approach. No more magic. There's a field there. We don't yet understand it, but it's there, effecting things, and it's our job to actually figure out what it is, not wave our hands about probabilities. This feels real to me. The other interpretation did not.
- madhadron 14y agoThe hardest task of quantum mechanics is learning that the intuitions about the universe baked into you by being human are wrong. You never actually escape them, but you do learn to suppress the naive physics hardwired into your brain and slowly and awkwardly simulate a better understanding using another part of your brain.
- stan_rogers 14y agoYou do understand that Schrodinger's cat was a reductio ad absurdum, right? An argument against the Copenhagen interpretation?