14 April 2010

The measurement problem

4 comments:

sarachka said...

Measure it and they will come. Sadly, my experience has not been that 'keeping it simple for the lay person' works - you start a meeting with everyone agreeing with the observer effect but it soon gets lost in an administrative bog. Indicator quicksand.

D.Macri said...

"Problem"?

Maybe they should say measurement phenomena.

Lorne Roberts said...

this is a pretty mind-bending concept. i'd be interested to hear it explained a bit more thoroughly.

Anita said...

"Putting things outside from the inside...it is really easy"

That guy is awesome.

I guess it is pretty easy, we do it all the time, just not consciously.

I still don't understand the "why" or "how". I don't think physicists do either. I guess that's the mystery, right?

I'll ask my dad.