{"id":187667,"date":"2024-04-19T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/chaos-the-real-problem-with-quantum-mechanics"},"modified":"2024-04-19T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:30:23","slug":"chaos-the-real-problem-with-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/chaos-the-real-problem-with-quantum-mechanics","title":{"rendered":"Chaos: The real problem with quantum mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LJzKLTavk-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out the math &amp; physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and support this channel by going to <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/Sabine\/\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/Sabine\/<\/a> where you can create your Brilliant account. The first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. You have probably heard people saying that the problem with quantum mechanics is that it\u2019s non-local or that it\u2019s impossible to understand or that it defies common sense. But the problem is much simpler, it\u2019s that quantum mechanics is a linear theory and therefore doesn\u2019t correctly reproduce chaos. Physicists have known this for a long time but it\u2019s rarely discussed. In this video I explain what the problem is, what physicists have done to try and solve it, and why that solution doesn\u2019t work. Subscribe to my weekly science newsletter: <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/<\/a> You find the estimate for Saturn\u2019s moon Hyperion in Zurek\u2019s review <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/quant-ph\/0105127\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/quant-ph\/0105127<\/a> A much easier to digest and more readable review by Michael Berry is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelberryphysics.files.wor\">https:\/\/michaelberryphysics.files.wor<\/a>\u2026 you can find a brief summary on Sean Carroll\u2019s blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/\">https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/<\/a>\u2026 0:00 Intro 0:27 The trouble with Hyperion 4:04 The alleged solution 6:02 The trouble with the solution 7:46 What a real solution requires 10:31 Sponsor message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the math &amp; physics courses that I mentioned (many of which are free!) and support this channel by going to https:\/\/brilliant.org\/Sabine\/ where you can create your Brilliant account. The first 200 will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. You have probably heard people saying that the problem with quantum mechanics is that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}