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 · yt0.779

   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…

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2. 02 · yt0.767

   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 hundred years almost more like 90. For about 90 years they've been speculating on this with no actual solution in sight. The weirdest ideas are presented by them in order to resolve this conundrum. But I believe it's still open and open question in the physics world. So this is what got me into thinking about…

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3. 03 · yt0.765

   Now the problem is I mean one way to put the problem conceptually is that quantum mechanics is often presented as if measurement was this very important almost semi-agical moment in physical interactions where something special happens. Um, but then we also tell students things like this. Well, a screen, what does it do? It measures position. Yeah. Right before that dot appeared on the screen, did the particle have a position? No, didn't have one. Right? It just had none. Right? But if it didn't have one, then you didn't measure its position. Right? Then that interaction created the position. …

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4. 04 · yt0.763

   So it's replacing the usual pattern of ordering special temporal phenomena according to a rule of causality. Now I'm as I told you I will broaden a little bit my debate and compare two types of philosophies of knowledge and especially two types of readings of the measurement problem of quantum mechanics. one which is called naturalized and the other one which is called transcendental. Actually here again I will explain of course what is transcendental and what is naturalized. Okay, what is transcendental? Uh first of all we have to be very careful not to mix up as many especially many uh Engli…

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5. 05 · pubmed0.762

   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

6. 06 · yt0.761

   Thus if we try to analyze our own emotions we hardly possesses them any longer. So in introspection or reflection we reduce flowing spontaneous activity in time nonobject for example V music on an object of this reflection but this objectivising and description of that is already not the original experiencing of music. Accordingly, Bore declared that I quote words like contemplation and valition or we can use more words. Words like contemplation, reflection, thinking and valition, instincts, spontaneity feelings. These words like contemplation, evolution, referring to situations which are mutu…

   yt/CHBrHX0ijvs-grygar-bohr-s-framework-of-complementarity-in-the-light-of-h/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.760

   I wanted to begin with a, I don't know, a pet peeve of mine that I think you also agree with. When it comes to quantum mechanics, unlike any other theory that we discuss, people use this word "interpretation." The interpretations of quantum mechanics. And to me, as we'll get into it, the interpretations are not interpretations. They're different theories. And some of the interpretations don't even qualify as a complete theory. And so that just seems to be a complete misnomer in the way we describe these things. - I couldn't agree more. And I got this view from Bryce DeWitt, who was my supervis…

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8. 08 · yt0.760

   So, for about ever since quantum mechanics uh was conceived, the physicists have been puzzled by the fact that in the act of measuring a quantum object, uh a quantum variable, um the mathematical structure, say as a wave function, collapses in an instant and yields a number, which is not there to begin with. It's not there before you did do the measurement. And this is obviously very mystifying. And physicists, as I say, have been uh trying for close to a century to resolve that puzzle. And uh it it seems to me, after more than a hundred years of failure, that they really can't do it on the ba…

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9. 09 · yt0.757

   When you, when you make a measurement, do these physical properties become defined? Yeah. Before you make the measurement, you can only speak of a superposition of different possibilities. A wave of probabilities, so to say, but not of a defined physical existence. Yeah. So if there is a cat in a box and, and there is an apparatus inside the box that breaks a vial of poison depending on whether a certain atom decays or not. And that, that decays, that is a quantum event. Yeah. It's not a deterministic event as far as I know. Random event. Yeah, yeah. Then random meaning we don't know how it un…

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10. 10 · pubmed0.757

    We still lack any consensus about what one is actually talking about as one uses quantum mechanics. There is a gap between the abstract terms in which the theory is couched and the phenomena the theory enables each of us to account for so well. Because it has no practical consequences for how we each use quantum mechanics to deal with physical problems, this cognitive dissonance has managed to coexist with the quantum theory from the very beginning. The absence of conceptual clarity for almost a century suggests that the problem might lie in some implicit misconceptions about the nature of sci…

    pubmed/PMID-30232960-making-better-sense-of-quantum-mechanics/info.md