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Sean Carroll’s Biggest Ideas (#259)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Quanta Mechanics - What's the Difference?

i find it very mysterious that we have these things in classical mechanics that we can do as undergraduates. I also, what i really think is that, you know, we human beings have to get over our preoccupation with classical mechanics. Classical mechanics is not how the world works. In quantum mechanics, position and momentum are not two things that are true. Theyare not features of the system. And when you do, your internal view about quanta mechanics becomes a lot more peaceful. You're ot making a statement about nature. The statement about nature should be of the form, here's the quantum world, here's how it works. There's something called the classical limit, where

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