0/ Nice analogy between history and quantum mechanics:
-
-
1/ Individually, history is quantum mechanical. There is a lot of randomness in the interaction which makes it really hard to predict anything locally.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
2/ In the large, many parts of history are fairly regular (e.g. exponential wealth growth, financial crisis cycles, technology S-curves, etc).
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
3/ Just like quantum mechanics turns into classical mechanics as you scale things up, a lot of individual interactions turn into classical history when you scale them up. This implies that most of our choices average out and don't change history.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
4/ However, sometimes we can deliberately set up the conditions to scale up the quantum interaction at a macro scale (this is how transistors work). Similarly, individual interactions, under the right conditions, can change history."
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Interestingly widespread belief in a particular theory of history is arguably one such macro factorhttps://medium.com/@samo.burja/on-building-theories-of-history-36ed1999216e …
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.