New essay by me: "What does the quantum state mean?" http://cognitivemedium.com/qm-interpretation … (general audience). Features Lewis Carroll as well as the word-salad and shut-up-and-calculate interpretations of quantum mechanics.
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Try the Heisenberg Picture. Using the Schrödinger Picture to try to understand what's happening in a quantum system is like trying to see what's in an image by looking at a compressed binary file. Compact, ingenious, but opaque.
I nearly put a suggestion along those lines in instead of (or as a complement to) the Feynman quasiprobability paper. I've some sympathy for it, though there do some to be some things easier to think about in the S picture. Though maybe that's just lack of effort/imagination...
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No it's true! And the same holds for JPEG: easier for some things (e.g. sending in e-mail), harder for others (telling hawk from handsaw).
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