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Episode 35 - Balaji Srinivasan: The Heretic and the Virus | Episode 35 - Balaji Srinivasan: The Heretic and the Virus | ||
=== Essay === | |||
Intro: Eric Weinstein: Hi, itâs Eric with some thoughts for this weekâs audio essay on the topic of superposition. Now, to those of you in the know, superposition is an odd word in that it is the scientific concept we reach for when trying to describe the paradox of Schrödingerâs cat and the theory and philosophy of quantum measurement. We donât yet know how to say that the cat is both dead and alive at the same time rigorously, so we fudge whatever is going on with this unfortunate feline and say that the cat and the quantum system on which its life depends are a mixture of two distinct states that are, somehow, co-mingled in a way that has defied a satisfying explanation for about a century.  | Intro: Eric Weinstein: Hi, itâs Eric with some thoughts for this weekâs audio essay on the topic of superposition. Now, to those of you in the know, superposition is an odd word in that it is the scientific concept we reach for when trying to describe the paradox of Schrödingerâs cat and the theory and philosophy of quantum measurement. We donât yet know how to say that the cat is both dead and alive at the same time rigorously, so we fudge whatever is going on with this unfortunate feline and say that the cat and the quantum system on which its life depends are a mixture of two distinct states that are, somehow, co-mingled in a way that has defied a satisfying explanation for about a century.  | ||