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The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know

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The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know

Ron Garret's Google Tech Talk argues that quantum mechanics is no harder to understand than relativity and that popular accounts wrongly rely on the Copenhagen interpretation. He presents measurement as entanglement and explains phenomena like the quantum eraser.

HN commenters repeatedly recommend it as the talk that finally made quantum mechanics click, especially for programmers.

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