Tag: quantum-physics
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Making it all up
The relationship of quantum physics and language The great CERN physicist Ian Bell once wrote a short reflective paper called “Speakable and unspeakable in quantum physics”. He introduced this paper by quoting the opening of Koestler’s Sleepwalkers: “the manner in which some of the most important individual discoveries were arrived at reminds one of a…
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A new ontology for quantum physics
Abstract This note outlines a “probability-field” interpretation of quantum mechanics. The proposal takes standard mathematics —especially the path-integral—as a direct description of reality rather than of hidden objects. In this view, probabilities themselves are the primitive ontology: physical reality is a dynamically evolving field of structured probability. Measurement means a momentary local stabilization of one…
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Quantum physics in ten short paragraphs
These are the only things you need to know about quantum physics unless you are a physicist or a mathematician. Quantum physics is the science of particles. Nobody has ever seen a particle and there is no accepted definition of what a particle is. Particles are too small to be observed. Quantum physics replaces observation…
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The Quantum Mechanics of Marketing
This is an essay I wrote a while ago. It is in draft form but contains some useful ideas Marketing theory is not in a good place. On the one hand we have data analytics, whose practitioners are driven by hard functionality. This crushes creative thinking, for which the only credible theoretical opposition to this…
