In this episode of Crisis in Perception, we take a deep dive into What Is Real? by Adam Becker — a sweeping exploration of one of science’s most unsettling questions: What is quantum mechanics actually saying about reality?
Rather than focusing on equations alone, this book examines the interpretations of quantum physics and the long-standing resistance to asking what the theory means beneath the math.
Key themes include:
The measurement problem and why observation appears to change outcomes
The dominance — and limitations — of the Copenhagen interpretation
The sidelining of alternative frameworks like Many-Worlds, Bohmian mechanics, and Bell’s theorem
How scientific culture can discourage foundational questions
Why narratives about reality matter as much as calculations
This Deep Dive explores how the “shut up and calculate” mindset shaped modern physics — and what may have been lost by abandoning the search for an underlying reality.
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