Sabine Hossenfelder has lost faith in science?
What science media make of the 3 million year old tool assembly, recently found
At Smithsonian Magazine: Stone tool kits from 3 million years ago?
Killer whale mommies are not good DarwinMoms, it turns out
From Frontiers Science News: Neanderthals cooked and ate crabs too
At Big Think: The weirdness of quantum mechanics forces scientists to confront philosophy
L&FP, 65e: Imaging light as a “wavicle” — both wave and particle
. . . using standing waves of light, vid: x Here is a snapshot: By setting up standing waves and using an electron beam to interact with it, a map could be imaged on photon location and waves. As an article explains: Until now [–> c 2015], scientists have only ever been able to capture an image of light as either a particle or a wave, and never both at the same time. But a team from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have managed to overcome the obstacles that stood in the way of previous experiments by using electrons to image light in this very strange state. The key to their success is their unusual experiment design. Read More ›
L&FP 65d: Superposition and the wave function
Here Hossenfelder is an instrumentalist, and emphasises that the superposition is an expression of a probability wave thus a prediction of observations not ultimate truth. Bonus, she brings in entanglement and the concept that it discusses correlated states, using radioactive decay as a case. However, all of this can help us address things like alleged clashes between Quantum Theory and Logic, cf our weak arguments discussion here. Q-Mech, of course, humbles us all. KF
Whistling into the wind: There is no consciousness problem!
Trust the science? Covid mask mandates were sciencey rubbish, it turns out
Unique octopus genes seem to have appeared from nowhere
L&FP 65c: Hossenfelder on the rest of the story on delayed choice quantum eraser exercises
Here: Still not duly humbled? What more would it take? KF