Allegedly, sex sells everything. In this entry I will use sex to sell some of my thoughts on quantum mechanics. More precisely, I will use a sex analogy to explain why quantum mechanics looks weird and why it is natural to introduce hidden variables in quantum mechanics to remove its weirdness. To make it understandable to everybody, I will not really talk about quantum mechanics. Instead, I will talk about quantum psychology.

What is quantum psychology? It is just a fancy name for...

I present two hypothetical (but typical) dialogues, one between a creationist and a mainstream physicist, the other between the same mainstream physicist and a bohmian (an adherent of the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics). It clearly demonstrates that mainstream physics is plagued by double standards, i.e., that epistemological standards used in foundations of quantum mechanics are not compatible with those used in the rest of physics.


DIALOGUE I:

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The goal of this entry is to provide a simple everyday-life analogy to explain quantum wave-particle duality, which-way experiments, delayed choice experiments, and quantum erasers. This analogy resulted from my attempt to explain the paper http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9903047 [Phys.Rev.Lett. 84 (2000) 1-5] to a psychologist.

Are photons particles or waves? Instead of dealing with such an abstract question, we deal with an analogous one: Are humans individuals ("particles")...

Here is a simple analogy that helps to understand the basic idea of the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Assume that you have recipes for two different meals. These recipes are written on papers. Hence, these recipes are real. However, when you make the meal, you use only one of the recipes. Only one meal is real. The unused recipe is not real as a meal. But it is still real as a recipe. Now, wave functions are recipes, and particles are meals.

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If there is an interest then I will put them up.
jal