Every description of the world is always from the inside, so to say, not from the outside. Quantry mechanics allows the existence of complex systems like us that actually make a picture of the external world. And i can ask you, what have you seen? And we can compare notes, so i'm not isolated from you, and i can learn something more from what i learn from you. This becomes, i think, a useful and a beautiful metaphor for culture itself. What it is our common thinking. It's a constant dialogue in which differentt s interact to allow us a better understanding of reality. There is no ground point. Thereis nobody who has absolute truths and describe the entire
From electrons behaving as both particles and waves to a cat in a box that’s both dead and alive, the consequences of quantum physics are decidedly weird. So strange, that over a century since its conception, scientists are still arguing about the best way to understand the theory. In the second of two episodes, Ian Sample sits down with the physicist Carlo Rovelli to discuss his ideas for explaining quantum physics, and how it affects our understanding of the world. Help support our independent journalism at
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