Science

Quantum mechanics has this extreme intellectual sheen, and disagreeing with the orthodoxy is a surefire way to self-recategorize as a crank. The layers of lindy thinking accumulate into unquestionable dried crusts that seminarians are instructed to accept on faith so they can join the church of shut up and calculate.

The only problem is externality pricing.

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What if:
- photons don't exist, it's merely that emission and absorption are quantized
- low angle polarization can coax em waves into new polarizations
- high angle polarization (e.g. 0 and 90°) fully absorbs the energy of a wave

Seems like you could explain almost everything that way

Imagine you have a mirror on the floor, with a light source on one side, a light detector on the other and a wall in between the two.

The light is angled toward the mirror so the detector can pick it up (reflects around the wall).

This setup is nothing fancy, and what you expect will happen.

Honestly, maybe this is what qft has been saying all along and this confused bullshit is just the popsci hangover from the old generation of thinkers that exploited the ambiguity of qm to write books about woo, spook, consciousness, and magic.

If this were true it might make new predictions, but I doubt there would be discrepancies. Perhaps the only discrepancy would be whether quantum computing could work

If this were true, where would we observe discrepancies?