Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "JRE Clips" channel.

  1. And there is the kid who still thinks that programming makes him look cool. ;-)
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  2.  @AbleAnderson  His historical perspective is completely wrong. There is literally a mountain of scientific publications about the foundations of quantum mechanics out there. It's not that we haven't tried hard to find out something new about the principles behind it... the simple fact is that we haven't been successful. That is intimately tied to the success of quantum field theory and its great failure to go beyond the standard model, even though it is conventionally not seen that way. Also, his idea that we haven't made a new discovery since the 1970s or 1980s is completely wrong. Like most theorists he seems to be little impressed with neutrino masses. As far as "Gosh, who ordered that????" goes, neutrino masses are the size of a supernova, even if, to the theorist, their incorporation amounts to something like a simple three by three matrix in the standard model.
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  3. Proof for what? Parallel universes? No, of course not. They are just bullshit that Sean Carrol cashes in on.
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  4. And there is the kid who failed in high school science and never got over it. :-)
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  5. Please get help with that.
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  6. So dad made bad physics and the son is making bad music? OK. It's in the family.
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  7. Your first sentence was already complete nonsense and it didn't get better from there. ;-)
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  8.  @nickmontanaro9638  "Particle physics" is a misnomer. It's properly characterized as "high energy physics" because it is all about energy. There are no particles there whatsoever. How do I know? I used to measure that energy. I have NEVER measured even a single particle. ;-)
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  9. Your computer is significantly more advanced than Plato's writing instruments. :-)
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  10. Nope.
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  11. He is saying that you should buy his books because he knows how to bullshit. ;-)
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  12. Now you are just blaming the lawyers for being stupid. That's a general pattern with you, isn't it? It's always somebody else's fault. :-)
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  13. Bullshit. Sean Carroll is the current king of physics bullshit.
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  14. Elon Musk is launching rockets, Sean Caroll is merely throwing bullshit. :-)
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  15. Because it isn't true. It's just another braindead variation of Zeno's paradox. ;-)
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  16. Then the two of you should get a room. You are making a great couple. ;-)
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  17. So you are one of those horns for Jesus folks. ;-)
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  18. Please find me the paper that puts the double slit at the beginning of quantum mechanics. :-)
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  19. Those who have problems with human relationships certainly must think so. :-)
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  20.  @QuantumNeutrinos  Yes, he is. ;-)
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  21.  @QuantumNeutrinos  You mean grad school and getting a PhD in physics is not enough school for you? Maybe I missed it, but they usually don't offer a higher level after that. ;-)
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  22. But then... there is always somebody there. So... no.
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  23. Yes, we invented the theory of quantum mechanics. Like all physical theories it is a story to describe the world in rational and quantitative terms. It's a story that works well. How it was invented is a slightly complicated affair that, if you really wanted a deep dive, would require you to read a lot of very, very confused papers. At the end, however, you would find that none of this confusion is necessary. One can derive quantum mechanics rationally from a few axioms in maybe a dozen pages of almost high school level math. It's not complicated... but hindsight is always 20/20.
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  24.  @ChadAV69  And there is the combination of narcissism with fake conservatism. ;-)
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  25. Sean Carroll is utterly disingenuous about physicists not asking questions about the meaning of quantum mechanics. We do understand the meaning of quantum mechanics perfectly well - in relativistic field theory. It just happens that only very few physics students take classes in quantum field theory and high energy physics. The majority of physicists don't need that level of detail for their work. Most of atomic, molecular and solid state physics can be done happily with the non-relativistic pseudo-theory that people know as the Schroedinger equation and the Copenhagen interpretation. But that's the state of physics from 1926/1927, i.e. it's almost 100 years old by now. It was not self-consistent back then and there is no way to make it self-consistent, no matter how much clueless people are trying to doctor around it with pseudo-scientific and pseudo-philosophical band-aids. Anybody who really wants to understand what makes the world tick will have to take the plunge and spend five years of their life on learning quantum field theory. That's all there is to it.
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  26. And there is the reason why Mrs. Left and Mrs. Right are having carpal tunnel. ;-)
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  27. You don't have to believe every bullshit that you see on the internet. :-)
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  28.  @TYPOaxis  Around me personally? Hardly. I could loose a lbs or two, but I am not quite a galactic black hole. :-)
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  29.  @TYPOaxis  Recommended reading: "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster. Don't let it get to you, though.
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  30.  @TYPOaxis  Fair enough. Have fun.
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  31. And there is the giant pile of bullshit. :-)
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  32.  @flapjackson6077  I can give attention to lonely kids without wasting my time on their bullshit. All you have to do is to ask, kid. ;-)
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  33. It's just too bad that he is selling you total bullshit, isn't it?
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  34.  @GiI11  And that is where you are absolutely wrong, kid. Philosophy is bullshit since 500BC. It's practiced by those who can't be bothered to understand physics. Like you, kid. Oh, wait, you don't even know philosophy. You just needed something to cover up your total ignorance. :-)
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  35. I am sure you still came out ahead of her. ;-)
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  36. The "observer" is an irreversible physical process. How rare is that? Hint: it's all over the place.
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  37.  @joelynn2874  I am not sensing any consciousness here, kid. I am sensing a mind that is full with utter bullshit.
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  38. You are clearly not making good choices in your relationships. So what, though? So nothing.
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  39. Hidden variable were disproven in 1927. :-)
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  40. Dude, we teach the double slit in high school. You missed it because you were high on something, just like right now. ;-)
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  41.  @EyeForKnowledge.  Well, they sure taught it at mine... some 50 years ago. I was, of course, not high back then and I did pay attention. :-) In the high school physics classroom we usually demonstrate it with a small ripple tank. So, if this thing works with water, then what do you think? Is there any quantum mechanics involved? Of course not. The double slit has nothing whatsoever to do with quantum mechanics. That's just stupid people talking bullshit on the internet.
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  42. It's so sad that Sean Carroll is selling out like that.
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  43. What's crazy about energy conservation?
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  44.  @joelynn2874  Observation takes quanta of energy out of quantum systems. What did you think an observation was?
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  45.  @joelynn2874  Dude. Observation is irreversible energy transfer from a quantum system to an external system. That is not Nobel price worthy physics. That's minute seven of the first class of QM 101. :-)
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  46.  @joelynn2874  There are no particles in quantum mechanics. There are only quanta. You don't have to believe any of the bullshit that you read on the internet. And, no, Trump didn't win the election, either.
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  47. It's called the universe. It would have been better if physicists had not adopted the multiverse terminology but instead had called it something like a "multi-domain universe". That is both mathematically and scientifically far more accurate. Personally I like the term "foliation" but it happens to be used already for a very different kind of phenomenon. At the end of the day, though, what's in a name? A rose by any other name smells just as sweet.
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  48. That won't be hard for you, since no woman will ever offer you one. ;-)
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  49. Or... you could stop drinking. ;-)
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  50. Why are you telling us that you have plenty of experience with the court system? ;-)
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