Quantum
Hi.
You’ve discussed this a lot, though, and there’s something that still doesn’t sit well with me about it. This is apropos of the question that was asked recently about that rabbi who “defames” science in the name of insights that supposedly arise from quantum mechanics.
That rabbi’s basic claim serves to undermine objective truth and probably also rational discourse (at least modern).
I think he is wrong because:
1. The fundamental strangeness of the quantum world does not apply to large systems, which are most of what we encounter in everyday life.
2. He also made a very sweeping statement about quantum systems. Because despite its strangeness, quantum mechanics is based on laws that are rigid enough to provide repeatable explanations and successful predictions. Furthermore, to the best of my understanding, all electronic technology is built on the invention of the transistor, and it itself would not have been created without our understanding of quantum laws.
Do you agree with the two points I made? Are there more?
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Chen Chen
Well then if I'm in Schwang maybe something else small.
Regarding the Copenhagen interpretation (not the one commenting here on the site, the original one).
If I understood it correctly then its essence is expressed in the claim that at least with regard to the quantum world there is no place for the usual binary logic. The superposition state supposedly “proves” that there are states that cannot be described dually as false or true.
This idea seems to me to be baseless: this claim of Bohr's itself uses classical binary logic, even in the eyes of Bohr himself. After all, he assumes that it can be true (and in his opinion in practice it really is true). In other words: he himself describes the quantum strangeness in a completely conventional and banal way. The strangeness rule.
Agree
This is a more complex discussion. I completely agree. Furthermore, any claim that quantum mechanics breaks a logical rule (the so-called “quantum logic” approach) is nonsense. Quantum mechanics itself is based on classical logic. Therefore, the Copenhagen interpretation is not about logic, contrary to what is usually presented. See Wikipedia on “Copenhagen interpretation”. It has nothing to do with logic.
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