Carver Mead weighs down against the statistical basis of quantum mechanics

http://laputan.blogspot.com/2003_09_21_archive.html
*VERY* interesting... something to shut Deepak Chopra and all those other new age kooks up, perhaps...?
*VERY* interesting... something to shut Deepak Chopra and all those other new age kooks up, perhaps...?

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"Mead agrees with Einstein and goes on to claim that a lot of the confusion and counter-intuitiveness of quantum mechanics would go away if we stopped imagining elementary particles like electrons and protons as tiny points and instead saw them as waves with a boundary. Of course it helps to have already had a stellar career in solid-state physics under your belt before you start kicking around scientific giants of the likes of Neils Bohr."
Interviewer: "It sounds like vanity."
Mead: "Of course. It was a period when physics was full of huge egos ... it isnt the way science works in the long run [but] it may forestall people from doing sensible work for a long time... They [Bohr and disciples] ended up derailing conceptual physics for the next 70 years."
Mead: ... That has hung people up ever since the time of Clerk Maxwell, and its the missing piece of intuition that we need to develop in young people. The electron isnt the disturbance of something else. It is its own thing. The electron is the thing thats wiggling, and the wave is the electron. It is its own medium.