The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | Albert Einstein #physics

Theoretical Physicist Sean Carroll talks about the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its history.

[tomveatch]

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”

― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

[EduardoGarcia]

“It’s a wave when you’re not looking at it but a particle when you fuck around and try to find out where it’s at” - Me

[jaredhynum]

It’s not so much that they behave differently when we *look* at them, they behave differently when they interact with another particle. And since it’s necessary for a particle to interact with a photon for us to see it, every time we observe it, it acts like a particle. But not *because* of our observation. It’s not like a particle can somehow know when a human being is looking in its direction.

[thomasherzog]

most people would get a better idea of this concept if scientists didnt use wrong words as inside speak.
"look" doesnt mean watch with your eyes, but measure it. you cant "see" an electron. a more fitting definition would be; Electrons change their behavior once you interact with it.

[bite-sizedshorts]

It's not just a thought. There are actual experiments I learned about in school decades ago that show particles acting as waves sometimes.

[dvs]

told mom that my room was clean when she wasn't looking at it. It looks messy due to her observation. She responded by telling me my bed will now be in the garage regardless of when she's looking at it.

[twotwentyseven]

Sorta like kids behaving well when parents are looking and behaving poorly when they aren't looking.

[reneebarguen]

Photons are only visible, until something obstructs them. They’re absorbed like
Radiant heat

[KevintheScienceNerd]

My personal favorite idea about electrons is the "one election universe" hypothesis. The idea is basically that all electronics are the same electron appearing simultaneously everywhere all at once. It was a throwaway hypothesis postulated by Richard Feinman but I don't think there's any real study into it.

[sneakyfox]

I've visited the Bohr Institute a couple of times; low buildings, narrow corridors, small rooms. It's strange to realise that such great minds thought such great thoughts in such a humble place.

[private_citizen]

Here is a thought. The light energy wave creates photons when it interacts with something. The wave isn't sometimes a wave or sometimes a photon. It creates the photons. This is why you don't see a light path coming from the source because as the wave travels through air it is not hitting anything to create photons.

[mydogbrian]

> In the late 1920's the greatest *Mimes* in physics theriactlcal actions were interpreted in Copenhagen.

[courtneysims]

Quantum mechanics is best described by cymatics, the study of sound and vibrations, visually. Neon lamps can show you sound waves. Looking at the shapes of those sounds if you stretch them out, you’ll be looking at DNA.
For the electron discussion: it is only like a wave bc of the hydrogen. It is only like a particle bc of the cellular structure of its nuclei that has a neutral charge or net 0- Keeping it at a state of change (solid to liquid to gas). It moves it in and out of optical propulsion which works like a spinning radiometer only opposite, where the light seems to be moving on the outside of the bulb rather than strips on the inside.

[anthonylopez]

Thus proving that the intentions with which we observe, effect what we observe. The scientific foundation for like attracts like, and the root of magnetism.

[BEder-itlf]

With Schroddinger i keep thinking about that Poor Cat!

[craigmerryfull]

The wave is more all the possible positions. electrons dont really have linear moments like us, They can kinda be in multiple probable locations in a single moment. when we "observe it" we are really seeing a collision point of the observing particle within the wave of probability.

[godamid]

You don't need particles. If you measure a wave you will either detect it when the amplitude is greater/lower than zero, or you won't when it's amplitude is zero.

[TheWadetube]

The photon is TWO particles like a bandoleara and spins with a frequency and a peak energy and that is how it's a wave AND a particle.

[seekfind]

Sounds like a fan. When spinning the blades look like a circle when you look at them, but a fan is actually composed of multiple blades.

[Eric-]

What’s incredible to me, is how many prominent scientists were at the 1927 Solvary Conference. Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Curie, Henriot, Piccard, Einstein. Just to name a few.