"Don't look too hard," I whispered to myself. In quantum mechanics, the act of looking—the measurement problem —is what forces the universe to pick a side.
Below is a draft story that personifies the "Theoretical Minimum" as a set of rules for a physicist navigating a world that refuses to behave. The Theoretical Minimum Quantum mechanics. The theoretical minimum
"It’s not everything," Art had told me before the accident. "It’s just what you need to survive. The bare essentials. The floor beneath which reality stops making sense." "Don't look too hard," I whispered to myself
Now, standing in the middle of a laboratory that was currently existing in three different states of renovation simultaneously, I realized I’d fallen through the floor. "Don't look too hard