{"id":3174,"date":"2019-10-15T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2019-10-15T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:49:03","slug":"opinion-even-physicists-dont-understand-quantum-mechanics-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2019\/10\/15\/opinion-even-physicists-dont-understand-quantum-mechanics-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Even Physicists Don\u2019t Understand Quantum Mechanics &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Physicists brought up in the modern system will look into your eyes and explain with all sincerity that they\u2019re not really interested in understanding how nature really works; they just want to successfully predict the outcomes of experiments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This would indeed be a sad commentary on the state of modern physics if only someone could give any real meaning to the question of &#8220;understanding how nature really works&#8221; beyond just being able to &#8220;successfully predict the outcomes of experiments&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/07\/opinion\/sunday\/quantum-physics.html\">Opinion | Even Physicists Don\u2019t Understand Quantum Mechanics &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists brought up in the modern system will look into your eyes and explain with all sincerity that they\u2019re not really interested in understanding how nature really works; they just want to successfully predict the outcomes of experiments. This would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2019\/10\/15\/opinion-even-physicists-dont-understand-quantum-mechanics-the-new-york-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}