Status Updates From What Is Real?: The Unfinish...

Physics so political omg… it’s like “so and so was extremely against the Copenhagen interpretation on the grounds that he was a Marxist” like damn I kinda don’t see what that’s got to do with it at all

Trying realllllllly hard to remember all those physics classes… feeling very gif of Patrick’s brain replugging and all the cobweb covered cogs start grinding

how personalities and human biases shape scientific practice, paradigms

Everett's multiverse found support from cosmology: inflation and string theory both insisted on multiverse

remaining problem's with Everett's interpretation: role of probability, unfalsifiability

a case against falsifiability is provided

makes me want to look for jobs in quantum foundations

recognition of Bell's work and its practical implications in cryptography.

spontaneous collapse to explain wave function collapse. wf collapses spontaneously randomly and seem to happen more likely when the wf is entangled with a lot of particles, like during measurement. Also explains why macroscopic systems do not present superposition states

Works of John Clauser, Abner Shimony on exp. of Bell's inequality. Dieter Zeh's rediscovery, improvement of multiverse interpretation and the coinage of the term decoherence. Alain Aspect's refinement of CHSH exp.

Varenna summer school - woodstock of quantum foundation dissidents. Epistemological letters their medium to discuss and refine ideas.

Book's opening quote makes much more sense now with Aspect's story.

positivism's death initiated by Kuhn

The setting of this paradigm shift: Bohm's interpretation is disparaged, falsely assuming validity of Neumann's proof, Bell's inequality is stuck in editorial limbo, Ervett's multiverse is not even in the radar.

Positivism seem have taken a hydra like existence, nebulous, unclear an din many forms. Instrumentalism, operationalism, logical positivism etc...