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Holiday Message 2022: Thinking Really Slowly

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Physicists are perfectly content to leave some of these really deep questions about physics by the wayside and I think that's kind of wrong. quantum mechanics is an example here we're almost 100 years after the Solvei conference we still don't have a consensus on what's going on in quantum mechanics but we have no trouble using it right. The arrow of time, why do you need a past hypothesis of early low entropy is something that is just not understood by most physicists who are teachings statistical mechanics.

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