The Philos-Sophia Vlog | What is the Quantum Enigma?

The second in a series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith.

Only an act of measurement can collapse the wave function of a quantum particle, assigning a specific value from many possible values. This is "enigmatic" to physicists precisely because there is absolutely nothing in quantum theory that can explain this collapse.

Nor can there be!

No equation — whether now or in the future — can account for this instantaneous shift from probability to actuality.

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[bachamadu]

My intellectual journey begins with St. Augustine reading his Confession. I was very surprised to read he spoke to God as Someone he knew so personally. I knew in reading chapter 7, Plato was crucial for his conversión. Since then though little i understand Plato, i fell in love with his quest for the One. One of the question i've is that: are we being-n-becoming in one? Being bcos we are human rational beings, and also becoming bcos we are not fully actualized our potential. Is that fair quesion?? Or is that contradictory in terms?

Dr. Wolfgang, thank you for your work and now thru your many interviews on líne, we are learning a lot. Yes without Vertical causation, our conception of reality is not complete.

Pax et Bonum

[david_porthouse]

Suggestion: there’s more than one way to travel faster than light, which can be adequately described by the Minkowski formalism. This is where quantum mechanics differs from aerodynamics, where there is just one way to travel faster than sound.

One of the ways to travel faster than light is associated with particle-like behaviour. The other way is associated with wavelike behaviour. I will leave it to the reader to decide which is which. I have my own ideas, but I could have it the wrong way round.

Is this the sort of key to the quantum enigma you are looking for?