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Documented HN sourceHN 22.5
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The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know
Google TechTalks · Discussed on HN from 2012 to 2025
Topics and ideas
- 01quantum mechanics
- 02entanglement
- 03measurement
Ron Garret's Google Tech Talk argues that quantum mechanics is no harder to understand than relativity and that popular accounts wrongly rely on the Copenhagen interpretation. He presents measurement as entanglement and explains phenomena like the quantum eraser.
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Video to really understand QM
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