Recent content by Pete Hammand

Exactly what I was thinking.

Thank you, I'm not very knowledgeable of physics beyond an AP physics class I took back in high school (which was over a decade ago), so if I'm wrong on anything feel free to correct me. I've been reading a lot of science/physics related books recently and thought it would be fun to throw some...

How do you use all the Physics symbols? Lol. I'm typing on an ipad here and wanted to write out some math earlier but wasn't sure how to do it.

You're still ultimately left with probability though.

Hm ok. Is there a theoretical physics forum where this would fit?

I'm not really saying this is a case in a scientific view. That was more of a philosophical statement that you need to think about. It's a silly argument , but a simple one. The only way we can be 'sure' anything exists is through conscious observation, this applies to science, or any area of...

I think it scares physicists to think of the implications of consciousness being fundamental, because this worldview implies that there is no 'real world' out there, it's simply a construct of consciousness. It's much more neat and tidy to think of it as a great machine rather than a great...

I also see your point too, it is odd to think, but maybe consciousness DID exist somehow, but it isn't within our understanding currently of how it did. Because our paradigm says brain creates consciousness, but if it is indeed the other way around, then consciousness must have existed all the...

Thank you for that reply that really is interesting. To be honest, I think Von Neumann was on to something. The Von Neumann chain is 'cut' once it reaches it's final destination, which is the conscious observer who determines the final outcome-giving certainty. IMO certainty has no meaning...

I see. But I had this weird thought, that maybe the decoherence is simply the particle 'knowing' that a conscious observer is measuring it. Not the result of any phenomenon of interacting with the measuring device. It is also hard to eliminate the observer by the very fact that we look at the...

Just curious, but has this theory been completely disproven? Is it possible to even debate that this is the case? It seems to me that some of the founders of QM such as Heisenberg, Pauli, and even Max Planck toyed with this idea and considered it a possibility. Why is it not any more? I don't...

Weren't schrodinger, Oppenheimer, Bohr etc. very deeply religious men? I think they were, but people like to forget that.

Ok. And for the Schrodingers cat thought experiment, I was thinking, schrodinger wasn't counting the cat as conscious was he?

what are the every day applications of QM?

Is there a difference between QP and QM? Are they one and the same thing?