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The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics

05/31/2025 7:33 AM

Below is link to a series of lectures by Professor Sean Carrol that is very interesting, to me at least. Maybe some of you will also find it interesting. He is very easy to listen to and follow, from the bottom rung of the ladder to the top as you go through the series.

Some of it is vey easy to grasp, other parts require a longer digestion period.

(I am still working on a lot of that gristle.)

It is also available on Prime Video, which has no commercial interruptions during the lectures.

I found it hard to leave, even for meals.

Starts at 8:32

https://youtu.be/LqQBIMgcVDM

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05/31/2025 7:45 AM

I think maybe we live in a simulation and Quantum Mechanics is a software bug...

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05/31/2025 10:45 AM

"A man dreamed he was a butterfly. When he awoke, he wasn't sure if he was a man who had been dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was a man.." Chinese philosopher

"Reality is an illusion, but a very persistent one." A.E.

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06/01/2025 12:49 AM

Thanks for the link. I watched a few segments, and liked what I saw between the interruptions, but there is no way I could follow the lectures with all of those long infomercials interrupting my train of thought.

Unfortunately, I don't have prime video, and don't watch TV, except for an occasional Nova, for the same reason.

If you find another way to view this series, without interruptions, PLEASE post it here!

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06/01/2025 6:30 AM

I use Duck Duck Go. No interruptions, commercials, etc.

https://duckduckgo.com/windows

I have no financial interest in this link or associations, it is simply my opinion and choice.

It works for me. I can understand how interruptions can derail your train of thought on something technical like this.

It takes a while to get back on track, and some of it is a little "chewy" and takes a while to swallow, with many rewinds and pauses. I have not completed the whole series yet, but I intend to see it through..as many times as it takes. If you miss one rung on the ladder you fall through. I have fallen many times, but one must get back on and keep climbing.

I am very selective about what I watch on the net and tv.

It is like a buffet.. take what you want and leave the rest.

News is always bad news, seldom showing the good side of humanity, always the dark underbelly of society. The networks have to fill the time slot,24 seven. I remember when news was a 30 minute segment on radio( oops...telling my age now!)

The good news seems to be interred by the spades of commercialism.

I know there are more good people in the world than bad.

"Good night Chet."..."Good night Dave." *

Some of you may remember that quote.

*Chet Huntley, David Brinkley

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06/01/2025 3:39 PM

I'm thinking of birds I've seen fighting with their own reflections. Their brains aren't equipped to understand light reflection.

Perhaps our brains cannot come up with a model of quantum reality because it is not similar to anything we have ever seen.

Just a thought...

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06/08/2025 7:24 AM

To paraphrase a quote from Emerson Pugh:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/05/brain/

If the universe was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand it.

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06/08/2025 7:37 AM

Nothing can be observed without being affected by the observer. In effect, reality is all in your mind.

If you do not observe it and have never observed it in any form, it does not exist in your subjective reality(mind).However, it does exist within other bubbles

Subjective reality is like a bubble on a beach of foam. You can observe on a shallow level the subjective reality of others and it, like reading the title of a book without opening it.

This in itself is subjective; An endless Mobius strip of thoughts. You cannot escape the limited dimensions of your existence.

An example: A person hallucinating(In our bubble he is hallucinating, that is)leaps from the top of a tall building, thinking the is flying.; And in his bubble, he is flying, but when he hits the ground, his bubble of reality collapses and goes back into the ocean of universal knowledge.

Einstein said:" Reality is an illusion, but a very persistent one"

I will not argue with Uncle Albert.

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06/08/2025 7:45 AM

Check this out..

A quantum computer solves a problem without even running:?

https://phys.org/news/2006-02-quantum-problem.html

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06/22/2025 5:56 PM

I am fascinated by Quantum Immortality.

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