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Quantum Physics 101
The line between ‘fringe’ and ‘mainstream’ moves more than scientists like to admit. The Woo Index tracks the moves.
Quantum Physics 101 is my running attempt to translate frontier physics into plain English without flattening the strangeness out of it. The dashboard tracks the experiments and papers that bear on the questions most people actually care about: what is consciousness, what is the observer, and what is real.
The members archive includes deeper explainers, paper walkthroughs, and live notes from the Mind Snacks episodes where I cover this material with working physicists.
Headline Metrics
Papers tracked
▲ +38 this month
Replicated key experiments
▲ +2
Open foundational questions
▲ +1 (retrocausality)
Plain-English explainers
▲ +3
Watchlist
What I’m tracking now
Delayed-choice experiments
Two new labs reproduced the 2022 result. The implications are not subtle.
Orch-OR (microtubules)
From ‘fringe’ to ‘arguable.’ New evidence from anesthesia studies.
Measurement problem
Still the elephant. Every interpretation is a different metaphysics.
Quantum biology
Photosynthesis and bird navigation are now textbook. Smell next?
Recent Signals
What just moved
May 28, 2026
New retrocausality preprint
If it holds up, the arrow-of-time discussion has to be re-opened. Big if.
May 12, 2026
Anesthesia study published
Direct evidence of quantum effects in neural microtubules. Penrose-Hameroff camp claims vindication; skeptics push back hard.
Apr 30, 2026
Foundations conference recap
Many-worlds had a strong year. Pilot-wave is quietly resurgent.
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Woo Index
The line between 'fringe' and 'mainstream' moves more than scientists like to admit. The Woo Index tracks the moves.
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