"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." --Niels Bohr "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." --Richard Feynman Quantum mechanics are utterly bizarre. Quantum particles behave like spread out waves, until their position is measured, when they suddenly behave like a particle with definite position. The … Continue reading A debate on quantum mechanics interpretations
Tag: Brian Greene
Pseudophysics: The New High Priesthood
Wow. Somewhat in balance to yesterday's reblog of part one of Coel Hellier's post defending multiverse theories as scientific, here's Amir Aczel skewering many of the proponents of multiverses and other untestable cosmological theories. He takes aim at Brian Greene, Max Tegmark, Lawrence Krauss, and others, for presenting metaphysical assertions as science. The universe is a marvelous … Continue reading Pseudophysics: The New High Priesthood
Tegmark’s Level II Multiverse: bubble universes
I recently finished reading Max Tegmark’s latest book, ‘Our Mathematical Universe‘, about his views on multiverses and the ultimate nature of reality. This is the second in a series of posts on the concepts and views he covers in the book. Tegmark postulates four levels of multiverse. In the first post of this series, I described Termark's Level I … Continue reading Tegmark’s Level II Multiverse: bubble universes
Brian Greene on free will
Ignostic Atheist called my attention to this video of Brian Greene contemplating free will. Greene's take: useful to buy into but illusory. I know many readers will disagree about the 'useful' bit, while I prefer 'emergent' instead of 'illusory', but basically agree with his sentiment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBNzaXx6eKg
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