How do people make sense out of quantum mechanics? This is a very general question, but I am really struggling. Consider Bell's inequality, for example. To explain what it means to the nature of our universe, there are two ways:
1) The first is provided by Bell himself: There is a way to escape the inference of superluminal speeds and spooky action at a distance. But it involves absolute determinism in the universe, the complete absence of free will. Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind-the-scenes clockwork, but with our behavior, including our belief that we are free to choose to do one experiment rather than another, absolutely predetermined, including the "decision" by the experimenter to carry out one set of measurements rather than another, the difficulty disappears. There is no need for a faster than light signal to tell particle A what measurement has been carried out on particle B, because the universe, including particle A, already "knows" what that measurement, and its outcome, will be.
2) Our universe is somewhat a "simulation", not "real". When the particles do not interact with anything else, they are in a "reduced" state (e.g. so as to save "computational cost"); when they are observed by or interacting with something else, their status collapse to "real" ones.
These are the only two views that can keep my mind from being completely exploded. But, I am struggling to take any of them!
How do you "survive" quantum mechanics?
Submitted December 30, 2015 at 12:00PM by Eric3015 http://ift.tt/1ktDJbV
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