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MEASUREMENT. “Bohr’s view of quantum mechanics has traditionally been seen as opposed to quantum fundamentalism, not least because he insisted on a classical (not quantum) description of the measurement apparatus. This amounts to dissolving the measurement problem from the outset, since the apparatus and its pointer should not be thought of as being in quantum superpositions.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

TWO WORLDS. “Classical physics is causal; complete knowledge of the past allows computation of the future. Likewise, complete knowledge of the future allows precise computation of the past. Not so in quantum physics. Objects in quantum physics are neither particles nor waves; they are a strange combination of both. Given complete knowledge of the past, we can make only probabilistic predictions of the future.” https://lnkd.in/ebDJ4MfS View in LinkedIn

MICRO TO MACRO. “But if everything is quantum then superpositions at the microscopic level become “amplified” to the macro level, and there should thus, for instance, be apparatus pointers in various positions at the same time. Clearly this contradicts ordinary experience.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

INTERFERENCE PATTERNS. “For our purposes, superpositions may be taken to roughly correspond to objects being at different places at the same time. Such superpositions are essential at the microscopic level, e.g., in the explanation of the interference pattern seen in the famous double slit experiment.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION. “Superposition is the ability of a quantum system to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured. In the double-slit experiment, “Each photon not only goes through both slits; it simultaneously takes every possible trajectory en route to the photographic plate.” https://lnkd.in/ejXRbmr6 View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM MEASUREMENT PROBLEM. “Stated briefly, the problem is that if everything, including measurement apparatuses, is quantum (and correctly described by Schrödinger’s equation), then there ought to be superpositions in the measurement outcomes.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

ANIMAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. “Scientists have unlocked the secret behind Elysia chlorotica, the brilliant green sea slug that looks like a leaf, eats sunlight like a leaf, but is, in fact, an animal. Turns out E. chlorotica maintains its vivid hue by consuming algae and pirating their photosynthesis genes.” https://lnkd.in/eiizHHK8 View in LinkedIn

SYNOPSIS. “Matter is substance of three nested phases filling the Universe.” https://lnkd.in/eWv3eyi5 View in LinkedIn

TWO COMPONENTS. “Any material body consists of two components: visible and invisible. The visible material component is determined by the mass m. An invisible component is a shell of a material body in the form of an attached vortex of an electromagnetic field medium. The invisible field component is determined by the electromagnetic (relativistic) mass m.” https://lnkd.in/eWv3eyi5 View in LinkedIn

AUTHOR. Valeriy Pakulin, Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia, list of publications. He follows a Russian physics tradition of being iconoclastic, not following the herd, and coming up with highly original hypotheses, many of which can be tested experimentally. https://lnkd.in/eWKnqJJf View in LinkedIn