{"id":233666,"date":"2026-03-19T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-problem-with-pretending-quantum-mechanics-makes-sense"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:05:11","slug":"the-problem-with-pretending-quantum-mechanics-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-problem-with-pretending-quantum-mechanics-makes-sense","title":{"rendered":"The problem with pretending quantum mechanics makes sense"},"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\/u9YiM7LZ6b0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_<\/a>\u2026 Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Up next, Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe | Full Interview \u25ba \u2022 Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, physicists still argue about what the theory is really describing. Does the wave function represent something real, or just our knowledge? Why does \u201cmeasurement\u201d appear in the laws of nature at all?<\/p>\n<p>Sean Carroll reveals how quantum mechanics solved one set of problems while creating a deeper one.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Freethink Media Inc., All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p>Go Deeper with Big Think:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-problem-with-pretending-quantum-mechanics-makes-sense\">Continue reading \u201cThe problem with pretending quantum mechanics makes sense\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\u2026 Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https:\/\/bigthink.com\/membership\/?utm_\u2026 Up next, Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe | Full Interview \u25ba \u2022 Sean Carroll explains the biggest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233666","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=233666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}