#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

5062.204 - 5085.73 Sean Carroll

So this is the fundamental mystery of quantum mechanics is that how we describe the system when we're not looking at it is different from what we see when we look at it. So we teach our students in the Copenhagen way of thinking is that the act of measuring the spin of the electron causes a radical change in the physical state. It spontaneously collapses from being a superposition