[HN Gopher] Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantu... ___________________________________________________________________ Closed Loophole Confirms the Unreality of the Quantum World (2018) Author : gyosifov Score : 17 points Date : 2021-02-15 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org) | choeger wrote: | QM is obviously very true in the sense that it makes useful | predictions (in that sense, truth is somewhat a quantity). But it | is arguably very inelegant in its seemingly ad-hoc introduction | of probability. Naturally, one would hope to one day get a more | principled explanation of this randomness. | | What would be needed to make physicists search for such an | explanation? Some kind of pattern in the "randomness"? Say, | photons behave more like particles on Monday mornings? | frongpik wrote: | QM is the new Ptolematic system: it makes good predictions, but | because it puts Earth in the center, the orbits become needlessly | complex and artificial. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-15 23:00 UTC)