28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Contradiction Between the Basic Principles of Both Theories
In quantum mechanics, objects can be in two places at once. But when it comes to cricket balls or baseballs, that's not what you see. The question is why? What's the difference? And I was curious, because I went to lectures on various things that interest me - cosmology and general relativity by Bondi,. some mathematical logic by a man called Steen about Goethe's theorem and Turing machines... Then there was a lecture by Dirac where he talked about the superposition principle. He had a piece of chalk which he broke in two as an image of where it could be in two Places At Once. It might have calmed him down but insteadI worried about this
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