Quantum stuff

This page contains links to quantum-related posts I have published on this platform. To have a look at my textbook and papers I have written on the subject, see this page.

Quantum quandary #1: A quantum eraser and backward-in-time causation

Quantum quandary #2: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

Contextuality

Demythifying classical physics

How to fluff out matter

Particles: stuff or nonsense?

The world according to Bohmian mechanics

The most beautiful experiment in physics

A central mystery of physics

The great scandal of physics

The quagmire known as the “block universe”

Uses and abuses of decoherence

The shapes of things

The shapes of things and the thing-in-itself

Why the standard model?

The manifestation of the world

Quantum quandary #3: Bell’s theorem

Quantum quandary #4: bomb testing

Many words or many worlds?

The remarkable uselessness of the concept of force

Fairy Tale Physics

Quantum quandary #5: Klyachko’s theorem

Niels Bohr, objectivity, and “our experience”

Quantum entanglement: No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this.

Quantum redux

Sri Aurobindo, radical constructivism, and me: how am I doing?

Another quantum paper (I know, I said I wouldn’t)

Quantum physics and belief

QBism

Finally, a couple of more personal posts:

N. David Mermin and me

Berge and me