This, perhaps combined with covid, led me to several indisputable realizations:. Why the complex-valued amplitudes? Why unitary transformations? Why the Born rule? Why the tensor product? Despite its greater specificity, Q2 is ironically the question that I feel we have a better handle on.
Q1 therefore stands, to me at least, as the more mysterious of the two questions. So, I want to write something about the space of credible answers to Q, and especially Q1, that humans can currently conceive. And also because, besides having spent 25 years working in quantum information, I have the following qualifications for the job:. The purpose of this post is to invite you to share your own answers to Q in the comments section.
Any answer is welcome, no matter how wild or speculative, so long as it honestly grapples with the actual nature of QM. This is a remarkably strong constraint. OK, maybe four more comments to enable a more productive discussion, before I shut up and turn things over to you:.
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That atoms would be unstable, that the ultraviolet catastrophe would have no resolution, and so on and so forth. What classical mechanism can reproduce these sort of effects? Theorists spent a long time trying to cook up fixes for classical mechanics, and consistently failed.
