Comment on observer 👀 observed quantum state

• pcalau12i@lemmygrad.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Quantum mechanics is not complicated. It just appears complicated because everyone chooses to interpret it in a way that is inherently contradictory. One of the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics is that it is time-symmetric, called unitarity, but almost everyone for some reason assumes it is time-asymmetric. This contradiction leads them to have to compartmentalize this contradiction in their head, which then leads to a bunch of a contradictory conclusions, and then they invent a bunch of nonsense to try and make sense of those contradictions, like collapsing wave functions, a multiverse, cats that are both dead and alive simultaneously, particles in two places at once, nonlocality, etc. But that’s all entirely unnecessary if you just consistently interpret the theory as time-symmetric. This has been shown in the literature for decades, called the Two-State Vector Formalism, yet it’s almost entirely ignored in the popular discourse for some reason.

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  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How does that explain photons acting like a wave or a particle depending on whether they were observed or not in the double slit experiment?

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