Information as Fundamental? Universe as Simulation? Deep Discovery in Science. Episode Synopsis To know reality, one must confront the quantum. All Seasons. Episode Segments. Wojciech Zurek. Wojciech's Profile. Nima Arkani-Hamed. Nima's Profile. Lee Smolin. Spooky action at a distance. It would sound absurd if it weren't true.
View the discussion thread. Skip to main content. Closer to Truth Closer to Truth. Home Topics Cosmos. Search Closer to Truth. Via Social. Create new account Request new password. Interview Series. Why is the Quantum So Strange? The world made sense. Then quantum mechanics happened. Over the space of four breakneck decades, our world became a wildly unfamiliar place. Objects acted as though they could be in two places at once, particles led double lives as waves and information appeared to travel faster than the speed of light.
The weirdness of the quantum world has become legendary, but the origins of that weirdness remain deeply mysterious. Theorists like me continue to struggle with a question that seems almost unbearably basic: what gives the quantum world its distinctively counter-intuitive quantum flavour?
Correspondence theory identifies truth with the relation between a statement and a fact. Objectivist theory claims truth is something to be found in the world around us. The law of gravity is considered an objective truth. Constructivist theory maintains that truth is produced by actors and their structures. The food pyramid is considered a constructed truth for a particular cultural context.
Pragmatic theory equates truth with what works best, at the time. This list of truth understandings is by no means exhaustive, and people commonly adopt a combination of kinds of truth when they go about their daily lives. OK, so much for classical truth.
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