One doesn't have to dig far too deep inside the scientific literature in order to see how bizarre the current state of Physics is today just a glance on to their blogs will suffice.
Think about it — quantum mechanics has been around since the 1920’s at least, in a fairly settled form. John von Neumann laid out the mathematical structure in 1932. Subsequently, quantum mechanics has become the most important and best-tested part of modern physics. Without it, nothing makes sense. Every student who gets a degree in physics is supposed to learn QM above all else. There are a variety of experimental probes, all of which confirm the theory to spectacular precision.
And yet — we don’t understand it. Embarrassing. To all of us, as a field (not excepting myself).
- Sean Caroll
One of the greatest thinkers in physics says the human brain—and the universe itself—must function according to some theory we haven't yet discovered.
Now adding more oil to their wounds.
Superdeterministic - Conspiracy theories (LOL)
Local realism might not be dead yet because there is still one last loophole in Bell's theorem which is not ruled out yet i.e. the assumption that the experimenters have the degree of freedom to prepare a quantum ensemble of states independent of the detector settings.
We must also describe the states of the observer along with the quantum system to fully understand the evolution of the wave and its further collapse. Both the choice of the observer as well as the observed system are responsible for the results that are observed. The measurement problem is at the heart of quantum physics and it is one of the cornerstone of QM even though it has with stood the test of times, accurately predicting the possible outcomes of the system but science is more than just finding probabilities physicists like John Bell, Einstein, Penrose will not be satisfied by the positivist approach and one has to make deep in routes into its philosophical implications and look for an alternative world view and move forward.
- Author of the Blog, A new world view.
I'm about to fly to Vienna where I'll be attending a conference on Emergent Quantum Mechanics. I'm not entirely sure why I was invited to this event, but I suspect it's got something to do with me being one of the three people on the planet who like superdeterministic hidden variables theories, more commonly known as "conspiracy theories".
- Sabine Hossenfelder
A recommendation both for men and women (because I don't want to discriminate against anyone): if you're lying pregnant in the hospital, don't write physics papers because they are likely to be even stinkier bullshit than what you write most of the time. And make no doubt about it: none of Sabine's 10 most recent papers is correct.
- Luboš Motl
ROFL
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