Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Joe Rogan | What Everyone Gets Wrong About Quantum Physics w/Sean Carroll" video.

  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. And there is the kid who failed in high school science and never got over it. :-)
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  4. Your first sentence was already complete nonsense and it didn't get better from there. ;-)
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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. And there is the giant pile of bullshit. :-)
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  9.  @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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  10. It's just too bad that he is selling you total bullshit, isn't it?
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  11.  @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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  12. And there is the lonely kid who also failed in high school science. :-)
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  13.  @urex1717  OMG, you are already feeling sorry for yourself. That was quick. ;-)
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  14.  @urex1717  I am getting a kick out of people who are feeling sorry for themselves. :-)
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  15. And there is the lonely kid who plays with sock puppets. ;-)
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  16. And there is the kid who failed high school science, again.
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  17. What's spooky about a tiny bit of energy? Are you spooked by a kWh on your electricity bill? If not, then why does a fraction of it upset you? A kWh of energy happens to be roughly 16mol of visible (green) photons. What in the world is spooky about that?
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  18.  @yinyangja  How did we suddenly go from spooky to scary? :-)
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  19.  @yinyangja  Quanta don't give a frell about humans.
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