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Sean Carroll but scary somehow
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Physics, philosophy, complexity. Johns Hopkins & Santa Fe Institute. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
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Unfortunately this is hardly more clear. Fortunately, people started developing purely physical, mechanistic theories that successfully account for the apparent "collapse of the wave function" under measurement. These include Many-Worlds, pilot waves, objective collapse, and more. (4/n)
I liken the collapse of the wave function to being akin to suddenly stopping a spinning fan. While it’s spinning, the blades occupy a field. When you stick something between them, the blade stops in a specific position. It’s not a one to one analogy, of course.
I did write a relevant book. (5/n) www.amazon.com/Something-De...
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime: Carroll, Sean: 9781524743017: Amazon.com: Books
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Sean Carroll but scary somehow
@seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Physics, philosophy, complexity. Johns Hopkins & Santa Fe Institute. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest: Quanta & Fields, book 2 of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
preposterousuniverse.com/
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