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Dealing with the Abstract Wave of Quantum Mechanics
13:23 - 21:14 (07:51)
Physicists have a challenge of explaning how the abstract wave of quantum mechanics becomes to look like a classical world with baseballs and tables and the experiments don't clearly distinguish between one way of doing things and another way.
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We know that the world looks classical but how we go from a purely quantum description to the classical world is one of the things theorists haven't explored as well as they should have.
13:23 - 14:51 (01:27)
Summary
We know that the world looks classical but how we go from a purely quantum description to the classical world is one of the things theorists haven't explored as well as they should have.
ChapterDealing with the Abstract Wave of Quantum Mechanics
Episode#126 - Sean Carroll - The Problem With Quantum Mechanics
PodcastModern Wisdom
Physicist Sean Carroll discusses the natural laws that govern the quantum world and how they don't change as objects become larger.
14:51 - 16:27 (01:35)
Summary
Physicist Sean Carroll discusses the natural laws that govern the quantum world and how they don't change as objects become larger.
ChapterDealing with the Abstract Wave of Quantum Mechanics
Episode#126 - Sean Carroll - The Problem With Quantum Mechanics
PodcastModern Wisdom
Physicists have a filter for dealing with new ideas in physics, paying attention to the plausibility and articulation of the idea but finding it hard to pick out an unbiased approach when experiments don't distinguish between ways of doing things, making it hard to introduce new ideas.
16:27 - 21:14 (04:47)
Summary
Physicists have a filter for dealing with new ideas in physics, paying attention to the plausibility and articulation of the idea but finding it hard to pick out an unbiased approach when experiments don't distinguish between ways of doing things, making it hard to introduce new ideas. Some physicists have even been discouraged from pursuing quantum mechanics and other pressing questions.