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Density matrix and its classical counterpart
I decided that a reason contributing to the people's misunderstanding of the meaning and validity of quantum mechanics is the prevailing focus on…
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Readers unhappy about Aaronson's correct criticism of quaternionic QM
In 2012, I wrote a simple text saying why the wave function has to be complex . To preserve the sum of probabilities, one needs something oscillating…
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Steve Pinker is right to defend "scientism"
A week ago, Harvard's top evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker wrote an essay for The New Republic, Science Is Not Your Enemy: An impassioned …
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Boolean logic is sufficient to work with quantum mechanics
Even though a whole "community" of would-be scientists nurture a religion based on the (scientifically debunked) dogma that there is someth…
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There is no classical world
...even Sean Carroll may say true things about the foundations of physics... How is it possible? Well, quantum mechanics implies that if a process is…
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