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My favourite extract from the comments:
>George Beedle: Is it possible that electrons are interacting with the mesh of space-time in the same way as these droplets interact with the surface of the oil?.
>Veritasium: That's the thinking - maybe zero point fields are making the particles bounce around.
Becuz it is weird lol.
No one but brainlets use the words *quantum mechanics*.
The theory itself is disgusting and physics as a whole repels me.
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>materialism is based on the assumption that the behavior of basic particles dictates the behavior of more complex material aggregates
>people look hard enough at matter
>the harder you look the more functionally immaterial it gets
>the harder you look the more terrifying the initial assumption becomes
>its self-refuting nature is comparatively innocuous even to a stemlord
>draw an arbitrary (read: necessary to mitigate terror) line in the spectrum of observable material phenomena and claim nothing beyond it affects anything before it
>call what lies beyond the treeline "quantum"
>Both Religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view - Max Planck
You know when your alarm goes off while you're dreaming and sometimes the dreamworld tries to assimilate the sound?
Maybe you should change your sign then
quantum physics gets a lot of weirdness because it's weird. it's evidence that the world does not work the way that centuries of rational thought have tried to convince us that it does. that effects can be their own cause, that it's impossible for an observer to know what a system looks like when he's not observing it. due to the timing it's pretty much eradicated the faith people had that science will eventually find an answer for everything, or anything, really, because anyone will bet 100 dollars that there are particles smaller than quarks. and particles smaller than the subquarks. and so on ad infinitum.
it doesn't help that science and 'studies' in general has become a complete laughingstock due to the race for partisan and government money. anyone can back any statement they wish up with science, and anyone can argue against them, so, science doesn't have the conclusive say that it once had anymore.
people still have faith in engineering, however, and pretty much every good thing that we're getting going forward is due to engineers. engineers are doing all the real work now, because there's no war, and scientists don't really work for the joy of it anymore and probably couldn't afford to.
brainlets love their science fiction
>You know when your alarm goes off while you're dreaming and sometimes the dreamworld tries to assimilate the sound?
I don't see the connection to the rest of the post.
QM is often misrepresented because of a faulty assumption that the mathematics you do corresponds to a physical process.
Schrodinger equation says that the probability of a measurement is described by a wave equation.
It doesn't say what electrons do.
It doesn't say what happens between measurements at all.
However, this doesn't stop people from trying to interpret the schroedinger equation as a physical process itself.