Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Quantum mechanics

Quantum physicists get all het up about the spookiness of non-local communication, but really it is no more remarkable than the non-local effect that the moon has on the earth. The difference is that one is familiar and so no longer fills us with wonder, and the other one is novel. If we simply invent a word for the communication like we did with gravity then we will naively accept it as something definite and knowable and intuitive and we can start including it in our equations.

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