In Praise of Weakness

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:13060000,
            doi = {},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/13060000},
            author = {Steinberg, Aephraim},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {In Praise of Weakness},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2013},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:13060000 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/13060000}}
          }
          

Abstract

While quantum mechanics is an immensely powerful and precise theory which seems to describe everything in the world, its insistence on only predicting what happens when we make "measurements" has left scientists and philosophers alike puzzled - as David Mermin summarized one of Einstein's concerns, "Is the moon there when nobody looks?" Dr. Steinberg will talk about some of the new ideas revolutionizing our view of quantum measurement, in particular the surprising advantages of measuring things "weakly" and suggest that new hints may be emerging about how we should think about Einstein's moon.