Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. More information about Anki can be found in this article.
Allopathy
Allopathy is the system of medicine that aims to combat disease by using remedies such as drugs or surgery. ie “the treatment of disease by remedies that produce effects opposite to the symptoms,” as opposed to naturopathy / homeopathy which intends to build the bodies natural defense system. It is the term applied by homeopathists to traditional medicine.
The difference between a photon and proton
A photon is a quanta of light and is a mass less particle through which energy transfers when light propagates. It travels at the speed of light and has no charge.
A proton is a positively charged article having a finite non zero mass which forms the positive part of the atom. They are discrete packets having finite energy.
Superposition
Superposition is the ability of a quantum system to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured.
The bottom line on Quantum Mechanics: What we observe is much less than what actually exists. Position and velocity are what you observe, but until you measure the particles, their positions don’t actually exist. Only the wave function does. Fundamentally, there is a difference between a thing when you are looking at it and when you are not looking at it. You cannot observe the wave function.
So it’s a particularly different view of reality.
The question you might want to ask is why does reality look normal to us at all. Why don’t I see a probability cloud all over the place? We don’t know…At no point did we put new worlds in. The worlds were already there. In the Copenhagen textbook Schrödinger’s Cat Thought Experiment, we had to erase part of the wave function. So if you saw the cat awake you erase the part where the cat was asleep and vice versa. And ‘you’ are quantum mechanical just like everything else in the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. If an electron can be in a superposition of that place, then a cat can be in a superposition of awake and asleep and you can be in a superposition of seeing the cat awake and seeing the cat asleep. And finally the Universe can be in a superposition of one where you saw the cat awake and one where you saw the cat asleep.
For more information see my post – Reflections on ‘The Many-Worlds’ Theory by Sean Carroll
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
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Very interesting Matt…
Thanks Tom.