THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE QUANTUM
A provocative analysis of the history of quantum mechanics in six short podcasts.
Six more podcasts will be released in November 2025 on ontology or what is real as opposed to what is mathematically expedient following the insights of the physicist-philosophers such as Faraday, Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, J. J. Thomson, Eddington, Schrödinger and others.
Episodes
6 episodes
The Quantum Cat meets the Quantum Computer
Schrödinger's intention was that his cat analogy serve as a criticism of the notion of a particle being in a superposition of states. Once again the supporters of the Copenhagen interpretation hi-jacked the criticism and used it to support the ...
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10:09
Magic Particles
Einstein’s criticism of the Copenhagen interpretation, detailed in a 1935 paper he co-authored with Podolsky and Rosen and commonly referred to as the EPR paper included a thought experiment which involved the position and momentum of two parti...
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8:29
Atomic Circus: Jumps and Spins
Atomic spectra was used to support the idea that electrons can jump between energy levels or ‘stationary states’ in the atom. Schrödinger rejected this and thought a more natural explanation was to view the electron as a standing wave changing ...
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Episode 4
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8:47
Heisenberg, the Salieri of Physics
Heisenberg and Schrödinger had competing theories about the atomic model: Heisenberg took a discontinuous particle approach and his rival Schrödinger, a continuous wave approach. Heisenberg prevailed by hi-jacking Schrödinger's wave equation wh...
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Episode 3
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10:27
