c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…calendar. Well now, this requires a slight digression. Ordinary physics is done I'm sure you've heard this AD Nauseum using the Bohr Einstein Version of things, which has at its center this really weird idea of the uncertainty principle, and you know how…
…sloppy thinking it turns out that it's been known in the physics community for decades that there is an alternative to the Heisenberg Bohr model. It was developed by David Bohm God REST his soul and Bohm's Theory of quantum gravity and so forth and so…
…God REST his soul and Bohm's Theory of quantum gravity and so forth and so on gives just as good results as the Bohr Heisenberg model. In other words as an experimental theory it's as good. Why was Bohr Heisenberg chosen over David Bohm? It was chosen…
…gives just as good results as the Bohr Heisenberg model. In other words as an experimental theory it's as good. Why was Bohr Heisenberg chosen over David Bohm? It was chosen because David Bohm's Theory has a really counterintuitive notion built into it so…
…into it so fundamentally that it cannot be eliminated without this theory collapsing. And this quality is called non locality. The Bohr model says that below the ordinary universe of space and time there is a mysterious kind of connectivity that is…
…so nuts to the physicists of 1923 through 1935 or so that they were willing to accept the squirrelly part of the Bohr Heisenberg model this strange bit of business about the uncertainty principle. And what the uncertainty principle says is, as you gain…
…its velocity, you begin to lose hold of its position, and so you have to choose which one you want to know and the Bohr Heisenberg model says you cannot know both simultaneously. This is a basic property of the universe? Not not at all. In the Bohm…
…haunted quantum physics throughout the 20th century could be solved by admitting that the Copenhagen school, which is Niels Bohr and Heisenberg and all those untouchable and godlike figures, to admit that they were actually wrong about something fundamental.…
…built into it. And they thought uncertainty was a smaller outrage to reason, the non locality. So they chose the Heisenberg Bohr model with this uncertainty principle embedded in it. But now, in the last five years, non locality, which previously was just.…
…that after he published the general theory of relativity, a physicist named Herman Bondi launched a furious attack on it. And Niels Bohr went to Einstein and he said, bondi is saying all these things, he's publishing all these papers. What are you going…
…us see the scintillating, elusive, mercurial beauty. It turns out it's b's. To put it as kindly as possible, when the Bohr Heisenberg theory was formulated, there was another theory of the quanta on the table. But this theory had an assumption built…
…they're now separated in time and space. So the physics community, and let me say about the Bohm theory and the Bohr Heisenberg formulation, the mathematics is identical. The mathematics is identical. One does not give better results than the other, but…
…to make it completely explicit and predictable and to get rid of all the woo woo that comes in with the Niels Bohr formulation. I wasn't thinking so much of the uncertainty principle, but, for example, time can reverse. There's nothing at the subatomic…