Einsteins Unfinished Revolution Part 1 Jeopardy Template

Preface	Definitions Chapter 1-3	Definitions Chapter 4-6	Real life Questions	Random
100 What is a realist believe that there is a real world that contains properties that do not depend on our knowledge or perception	100 What is entanglement "If two parties interact, and then move apart, they remain intertwined in the sense that they seem to share properties which cannot be broken down to properties each enjoy individually" (p.5)	100 What is CONTRARY "In this state you can ask them both any question, and whatever one asserts, the other will assert the opposite. Yet it is impossible to predict their individual answers" (p.38)	100 Could the theory of entanglement be a threat to national security, how and why? can decode any encrypted message and create new unbreakable codes. This could cause wars due to certain countries spying on others
200 What is a quantum epistemologist believes that nothing is about the actual object, everything is about the knowledge we have of the object	200 What is the difference between epistemology and ontology Epistemology: The branch of philosophy concerned with how we know things Ontology: The study of what exists (used by realists)	200 What is Schrodinger's Cat An analogy of how the proton behaves when we are not observing it, we know that the cat is alive when we put it in the box and we know that it is dead when we open the box, but we don't know what state the cat is in when we can't see it
300 What are operationalists a group of anti-realists who are agnostic towards having a fundamental reality independent of us	300 Why can't an observer give an accurate description? "the act of observing or describing yourself changes you"	300 What is a correlated state the properties of the two systems are correlated, this occurs before the box is opened in schrodinger's experiment, because we do not know if the atom is in the ground state or the excited state	300 How is Smolin leading our interpretations of the quantum? Due to his realist perspective he guides our understanding to be in agreeance with his view and to deny that quantum physics is correct	300 How does the anti-realist theory of quantum mechanics relate to the theory of religion Neither can be seen or touched but are fully believed and practiced by a large number of people, they both cannot be proved or disproved
400 Does the natural world exist independently of our minds? The real question of quantum physics, nobody knows	400 What is the goal of physics/ what is determinism and why can't we predict the future The goal of physics is to find the most general laws of nature and to find the ability to precisely predict the future, which we can't predict because we can only know half of what we would need to know to precisely predict the future	400 What is an ensemble A collection of atoms which are similar in some way but different in others
500 How is science under attack in our current sociopolitical climate and how does that put us at risk? Climate change is not a political issue but is instead a scientific issue that needs to be dealt with scientifically, by fighting politically about it we are decreasing the amount of time we have to find a solution and actively work on the problem	500 What is the difference between beable and observable beable: is is part of what is observable: a quantity produced by an experiment or an observation	500 What is a spectrum a property of individual atoms, as it can be observed in experiments involving just one atom

Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: Part 1

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