Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · pubmed0.812

   The word 'uncertainty', in the context of quantum mechanics, usually evokes an impression of an essential unknowability of what might actually be going on at the quantum level of activity, as is made explicit in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and in the fact that the theory normally provides only probabilities for the results of quantum measurement. These issues limit our ultimate understanding of the behaviour of things, if we take quantum mechanics to represent an absolute truth. But they do not cause us to put that very 'truth' into question. This article addresses the issue of quantum…

   pubmed/PMID-22042902-uncertainty-in-quantum-mechanics-faith-or-fantasy/info.md

2. 02 · _intake0.790

   > physics is concerned, wrong or false. No, yeah. True or false as far as physics is concerned. But then once we set down our assumptions, is everything else we say, is it actually conclusive? Is that actually at least compatible with what we said? And there you need to be very careful because many things are plausible, but just not correct. And if we start hand waving, it's always very cool, right? It's a little bit, sometimes I blame it on Feynman, who was,

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/feynman/002-physics-is-concerned-wrong-or-false.md

3. 03 · yt0.789

   And that is a perfectly legitimate description of the state of the configuration of this thing. Just to give you a sense of a real physical object that would behave that way. Particles like electrons, for example, have a property called "spin", which can be up or down, it's like heads and tails. But that's the key thing that objects like "electrons" can not only have definite values of some property, some thing that you can measure, but they can be in a mixture of those things. And it's not a probability theory in the sense that we would usually think of probability theories. So usually we'd s…

   yt/BHEhxPuMmQI-physicist-brian-cox-explains-quantum-physics-in-22-minutes/transcript.txt

4. 04 · blog0.787

   A Circle does all of the above, and more, but, it's not worth arguing over!" So, on to the heart of this article: Explaining Magick in terms of Quantum Physics [{chuckle}, I knew a couple of Physicists who used to explain Quantum Physics in terms of Magick {grin}]. This covers the how and why Magick works. PLEASE NOTE: I do not claim to be infallible, this is not a laying down of the LAW. Rather, this is simply a theory. But then, E = MC(squared)is simply a theory. However there exists lots of data which supports both theories. Since I've already covered some basic Magickal Theory, it looks li…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-magick-physics-amp-probabil-internet-sacred-text-archiv.md

5. 05 · yt0.783

   That was the old dream, the clockwork dream. The universe is a perfect engine. If you knew the position and velocity of every particle, you could calculate the future like a spreadsheet. The future would be a page already written. Time would just be the mailman delivering it. That dream died in my hands. Not because I wanted to be dramatic, because the structure [music] of nature demanded it. When I finally expressed the uncertainty principle, it wasn't a slogan about measurement being hard. It was a statement about what can and cannot be said simultaneously with arbitrary precision. Certain p…

   yt/q95GYzJlyYY-werner-heisenberg-explains-time-like-you-ve-never-seen-befor/transcript.txt

6. 06 · yt0.783

   So maybe the right thing to say um again I want to get back to you still haven't answered the very first question I asked because I haven't given you a chance to but okay um there's a whole bunch of things that sort of come together to have a package of how we think about physics and what you're saying is something has to go and you know one way of saying what has to go is your notion of probability theory and maybe other things as well but what we all agree on is something has to radically shift from the classical view to the quantum view. >> That's right. That's right. Um, in the 1900s…

   yt/gINYis8BgSY-mindscape-323-jacob-barandes-on-indivisible-stochastic-quant/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.778

   The measured particle is in a given s- place and time. And so, this is something that puzzled the physicists. How is it possible for an act of measurement to collapse this probability wave and give a definite position to particles which have no definite positions before the act of measurement. And believe it or not physicists have been kicking this so-called measurement problem around for a good 100 years, almost. More like 90. For about 90 years, they've been speculating on this with no actual uh solution in sight. The weirdest ideas are presented by them uh in order to resolve this conundrum…

   yt/8NWHGX53agc-dr-wolfgang-smith-renowned-physicist-on-vertical-causation-i/transcript.txt

8. 08 · yt0.778

   Well, those properties are exactly the same properties that we have, When we. Consider our own. Inner experience. My inner experience is private. Can only be known by me. By me is not. The body in this case. Means the field. Because if I wear the body, my state, like the state of a computer, can be copied right? But, we are not the body. We are a feel controlling the body in this new theory. So. And it is the feel that we are that has this crazy properties. Also, what I can say. About what I. Feel is only a small part of what I feel. The same thing that happens in a quantum field. The other th…

   yt/w6cBQESNDV0-federico-faggin-merging-science-spirituality-quantum-physics/transcript.txt

9. 09 · yt0.777

   The so-called canonical quantum commutation relation from which the famous Heisenberg's uncertainty principle can be derived. But this happens two years later. For now, I wanted to show you that Heisenberg's paper already contains many of the blueprints for modern quantum mechanics. And although he didn't know it, this formula is the first draft of his famous uncertainty principle. If you made it this far, congratulations and thank you for joining me. This is a remarkable paper and I hope that with this deep dive any student even at the undergraduate level can understand its significance and r…

   yt/oVzzIkkYGY8-this-is-how-heisenberg-created-quantum-mechanics-step-by-ste/transcript.txt

10. 10 · yt0.773

    With certainty. Now, this is a criterion, I don't know what you call it, a a dictum I call it, by Einstein. Einstein was worried about this concept of quantum reality, I think. And he and lots of other people were worried about this. To what extent is the quantum state real? Is it a real thing? Or is it just a figment of imagination or useful tool of a our calculations? Is it real? Not that it's real in the sense of real numbers, cuz it's not. It's complex numbers, which is a nice sort of um iron irony. But take the spin case, that's a good one. Which way is it spinning? Like you know, not sur…

    yt/vC4HNcqTQXk-roger-penrose-on-mind-consciousness-closer-to-truth-chats/transcript.txt