{"id":10969,"date":"2013-01-22T07:17:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2013-01-22T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T15:17:12","slug":"sixty-symbols-on-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/sixty-symbols-on-quantum-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty Symbols on Quantum Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently working hard to finish a paper on the Everett (Many-Worlds) approach to quantum mechanics, collaborating with Charles (&#8220;Chip&#8221;) Sebens from the University of Michigan. It&#8217;s an area that lies at the intersection of &#8220;foundations of quantum mechanics&#8221; and &#8220;philosophy of physics,&#8221; and neither of those is really my expertise &#8212; but I&#8217;m trying to learn! More when the paper comes out, hopefully quite soon.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I end up posting a lot of videos rather than really blogging, until the larger crush of work is lifted a bit. While I was in Nottingham I had the pleasure of sitting down to record for their series of Sixty Symbols videos, which is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixtysymbols.com\/\">terrific series<\/a> that I&#8217;m happy to recommend. Here&#8217;s me chatting about the different approaches to quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/ZacggH9wB7Y?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Forthcoming: me chatting about the Higgs boson, and me chatting about the arrow of time. My time in England involved a lot of chatting, it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently working hard to finish a paper on the Everett (Many-Worlds) approach to quantum mechanics, collaborating with Charles (&#8220;Chip&#8221;) Sebens from the University of Michigan. It&#8217;s an area that lies at the intersection of &#8220;foundations of quantum mechanics&#8221; and &#8220;philosophy of physics,&#8221; and neither of those is really my expertise &#8212; but I&#8217;m trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10971,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions\/10971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}