This morning on BBC Radio 4, the mathematician Roger Penrose, physicist Basil Hiley, and philosopher Simon Saunders had a lively discussion about the “measurement problem in physics” with broadcaster ...

(via PBS Space Time) The mystery of what happens when we go from a superposition to a definite state is known as the Measurement Problem, and it’s arguably the most mysterious outstanding problem in ...

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A physicist that the answer to the long-running debate of quantum measurement lies in the phenomenon of nonlocality. Physicist Art Hobson has offered a solution, within the framework of standard ...

The speed of light is treated like one of the most certain numbers in science, yet the deeper story is far more unsettling ...