11.44, Friday 20 Apr 2001

Bohm's Quantum Alternative: "This theory, ignored for most of the past four decades, challenges the probabilistic, subjectivist picture of reality implicit in the standard formulation of quantum mechanics". Interesting [via Sylloge].

I wrote an essay about the quantum mechanics measurement problem as part of my university course. It was the only Physics essay I ever wrote, and I'm still happy with it. Trying to interpret the meaning of the equations (like the Talmud) really brings home the nature of science, the way it's so much more fundamental than anything else. There's a truth beyond that we understand.