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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas — 355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball
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355 | Solo: Looking Quantum Mechanics in the Eyeball

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 355

One of the major obstacles to understanding quantum mechanics is the difficulty we have in simply accepting what the theory itself is telling us. The problem is that we know what the everyday world looks like -- stuff, arranged in space, evolving through time. So we can't resist the temptation to impose that picture…

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