The Observer in Physics, Part 1: History and Background of the Measurement Problem

Glen, physicist, mathematician and computer scientist, joins for an exploration of the role of the Observer in Physics. The history of the move from classical to quantum physics. If you want to do some homework before Part 2, links to everything are in the description to the YouTube version of this conversation: https://youtu.be/A5xtyRkp6HE

In the world of Alice in Wonderland, the role of the observer is the rabbit hole.

If the Observer can't be described quantum mechanically, what is it?

The paradoxes of entanglement

Before Schrodinger came up with the wave equation, what was he thinking about and looking at that led him to his conclusions?

Quantum mechanics - based on principle of least action Gave rise to la Grangian formalism which gave rise  ...