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God I hope so. I've tried dropping fundamentals of quantum mechanics on my kids so that it doesn't seem so alien to them. I still have trouble grokking the sp
by danielweber 14y ago
God I hope so.
I've tried dropping fundamentals of quantum mechanics on my kids so that it doesn't seem so alien to them. I still have trouble grokking the spooky-action-at-a-distance experiments, but I know what the punchline is.
- btilly 14y agoIf you understand the Everett interpretation, those experiments stop being spooky-action-at-a-distance. Instead they become a prediction about a system at one locality will interact with a system at another locality when they rejoin. The trade-off is that your picture of reality has to become much weirder.
- Xcelerate 14y agoI'm not a big fan of the Everett interpretation. It seems too contrived. I prefer to think of spooky-action-at-a-distance as the nature of the wavefunction is such that its domain is all particles in the universe (which it is, since splitting it up for single particles is an approximation). Problem solved.
- btilly 14y agoI do not understand what you think is contrived about it. To me the assumption that quantum mechanics does not describe the human brain is much harder to swallow than the Everett interpretation is.
- Xcelerate 14y agoWho says that quantum mechanics does not describe the human brain? As far as we know, it describes it perfectly.