Is this place still here?

[Dinner]

How often,do you think, does he get addressed as "Bub" in a Warner Brothers / Bowery Boys accent?

Who is "Bub"?

[The Mad Monk]

Hmm, not my intention. I was trying to be interpretation-agnostic by not discussing what happens during measurement, only what happens to wave functions and what we end up observing. Maybe there's collapse, maybe there's splitting off into multiple worlds, maybe there's non-local hidden variables, whatever. What we know is what the math says and what experimental results show, and I don't think from that you can conclude that stuff doesn't exist when not observed.

But this is what you and KH get for leaving the forum. It's left to a guy who took undegrad quantum mechanics and a philosophy of quantum physics course (from this guy) to explain this stuff.

He's the "this guy" in Lori's link.

[Lorizael]

But to answer your question, the material in that course was arcane enough that no one dared make a "bub" pun for fear of distracting him.

[giblets]

By arcane I assume the course involved magic

[The Mad Monk]

It combined "quantum" and "philosophy".

Of course it involved magic.

[Lorizael]

UMD has both a strong quantum program and a very math/science-oriented philosophy department, so it was a pretty on the level course. A lot of discussion about precisely how weird quantum mechanics is (41%), and what it might look like if it were more or less weird.

[KrazyHorse]

Ok, so there are a bunch of old posters trying to relive glory days. Gotcha.

[Egbert]

KrazyHorse is a rabid and deranged loon.

[Dinner]

Ok, so there are a bunch of old posters trying to relive glory days. Gotcha.

Enjoying the company of old friends isn’t really a bad thing nor is it reliving any glory days.

[The Mad Monk]

Reliving glory days requires having them in the first place.

[Dinner]

Sick burn.