[HN Gopher] Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantu...
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Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World (2018)
Author : gyosifov
Score : 17 points
Date : 2021-02-15 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org)
| choeger wrote:
| QM is obviously very true in the sense that it makes useful
| predictions (in that sense, truth is somewhat a quantity). But it
| is arguably very inelegant in its seemingly ad-hoc introduction
| of probability. Naturally, one would hope to one day get a more
| principled explanation of this randomness.
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| What would be needed to make physicists search for such an
| explanation? Some kind of pattern in the "randomness"? Say,
| photons behave more like particles on Monday mornings?
| frongpik wrote:
| QM is the new Ptolematic system: it makes good predictions, but
| because it puts Earth in the center, the orbits become needlessly
| complex and artificial.
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