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The Origins of Quantum Mechanics

David Albert

12:10 minute excerpt from the lecture The Experiment That Broke Reality

An introduction to quantum measurement using simplified 'color' and 'hardness' properties of electrons, showing how measuring one property disturbs the other in a fundamentally unavoidable way.

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DAVID ALBERT opens with strange experiments on electrons, builds up to the measurement problem, and ends on attempts to solve the deepest question posed by quantum mechanics: can science describe reality at all?

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