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Stop Making Quantum Mechanics Hard.
It Really Isn’t.
Want to tell your friends that you understand quantum mechanics? Blow their mind with this statement.
Quantum Mechanics is the study of time.
That’s it. That’s all it is. People are making it hard right now because they are not looking at the whole picture.
Think of Schrödinger’s Cat.
Why is this a hard problem? Because we are looking at time from a single stable instant. But nothing is actually isolated. There is a long line of cause/effect chains leading to a specific event in time. Do you want to solve this problem? Be the one who put the vial in there, to begin with. Or examine the world to see what the evidence suggests. Communicate with others. You can know. The problem is poorly designed. Reality is the key.
A point in time can only be considered as a snapshot. You have to look at the flow of time to understand cause/effect.
This can have Newton’s laws applied as well:
Law 1
Every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. (source)
Inertia. Do you want to see inertia in time? Look at compound interest.
