▲ 364 ▼ I don’t understand quantum physics (mander.xyz) submitted 2 years ago by BB84@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) This meme is bullshit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago Thanks for clarification! permalink fedilink source parent [–] bunchberry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* Yes, there are a lot of intuitive understandings in the literature if you're willing to look for it. The problem is that most people believe in a Newtonian view of the world which just is not compatible with quantum physics, so it requires you to alter some philosophical beliefs, and physics professors don't really want to get into philosophical arguments, so it's not really possible to reach a consensus on the question in physics departments. Even worse, there's rarely a consensus on anything if you go to the philosophy department. So it's not really that there are not very simple and intuitive ways to understand quantum mechanics, it's that it's not possible to get people to agree upon a way to interpret it, so there is a mentality to just avoid interpretation at all so that students don't get distracted from actually understanding the math. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bunchberry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* Yes, there are a lot of intuitive understandings in the literature if you're willing to look for it. The problem is that most people believe in a Newtonian view of the world which just is not compatible with quantum physics, so it requires you to alter some philosophical beliefs, and physics professors don't really want to get into philosophical arguments, so it's not really possible to reach a consensus on the question in physics departments. Even worse, there's rarely a consensus on anything if you go to the philosophy department. So it's not really that there are not very simple and intuitive ways to understand quantum mechanics, it's that it's not possible to get people to agree upon a way to interpret it, so there is a mentality to just avoid interpretation at all so that students don't get distracted from actually understanding the math. permalink fedilink source parent