5/25/2023 0 Comments Something deeply hidden goodreads![]() ![]() ![]() What you decide for lunch has no fundamental effect on the shape of the universe. The act of "observing" is simply an entanglement of (what we perceive as) a particle with the measuring equipment and its environment. QM has almost certainly nothing to do with your thought processes (other than the driving all the underlying chemistry that is). ![]() There’s nothing special about an observer and absolutely nothing special about consciousness (from the QM point of view). Things aren’t a particle and a wave at the same time. This book cuts right through the bullshit, focusing on what we know, why we know it, what we don’t know and what are we doing about it. You hear people talk about QM with such an air of mystery, there’s no wonder charlatans like Deepak Chopra take hold in the confusion. What is the nature of the observer? Why is everything a both a wave and a particle? How is the can both alive and dead at the same time? Why the divide between the quantum realm and our everyday reality? And where does human consciousness come into all this? Most approaches focus on the utter weirdness, elevating our misled intuitions and ignorance to a mysticism. I wish my first introduction to Quantum Mechanics was with this book. This review was originally posted at Goodreads and imported here later with next to no spell/grammar checking. ![]() Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll - Aimlessly Going Forward Aimlessly Going Forward ![]()
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