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| Name | John Wheeler - Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (115/130) |
| Video Uploader | Video From Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 06-10-2017 10:20:45 |
| Video Discription | To listen to more of John Wheeler’s stories, go to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzVlqiUh95Q881umWUPjQbB American physicist, John Wheeler (1911-2008), made seminal contributions to the theories of quantum gravity and nuclear fission, but is best known for coining the term 'black holes'. A keen teacher and mentor, he was also a key figure in the Manhattan Project. [Listener: Ken Ford] TRANSCRIPT: I can recall Hugh Everett's thesis, and how I spent most of a night with him, going over [it], trying to word it in a concrete way. But the ideas in the thesis were so strange to many people that they provoked strange names. And particularly, produced a strange name, the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. A certain probability that such-and-such happens and will be in a universe where we see that happening. Or there's certain probability that something else happens and we'll be in a universe where we see that happening. Well, isn't that obvious, you could say. Well, in Everett's mathematical formulation, these possibilities were coexisting and could come together and be extinguished. It was only when what got to the point where one had an irreversible act of observation that one of these became materialized. If there's anything designed to confuse somebody about what quantum mechanics is all about, this does it. dZtgwGkBofY |
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