{"id":12584,"date":"2020-03-05T17:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=12584"},"modified":"2020-03-13T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:08:16","slug":"2020-03-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2020-03-08\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Know What We Know: Quantum Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><strong>Ron Garret<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11 a.m., March 8, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>This is another in a series of talks on the history of science and how we came to our present understanding of how our world works. This installment focuses on quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade. He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software. He was a co-founder and CTO of Virgin Charter, and an early hire at Google. He was previously a rocket scientist. He also made a feature-length documentary about homelessness (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.graceofgodmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.graceofgodmovie.com\/<\/a>). His blog can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rongarret.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/blog.rongarret.info\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Forum, please join us for a lunch at 12:30pm. The lunch is complimentary for first-time visitors and students.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/397281439\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/397281439\">How Do We Know What We Know: Quantum Mechanics &#8211; Ron Garret<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>RSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/269204120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Like us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>See videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>To help our Forum series continue, please consider making a donation or becoming a member (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/membership\/<\/a>) of the Humanist Community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do your online shopping at <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/ch\/94-6173979<\/a>, and Amazon donates to the Humanist Community every time you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you would like to speak at a Forum, or know of someone who you think might be willing to speak at a Forum, please send an email about your idea to the <a href=\"mailto:hc-program@googlegroups.com\">HCSV Program Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Garret 11 a.m., March 8, 2020 This is another in a series of talks on the history of science and how we came to our present understanding of how our world works. This installment focuses on quantum mechanics. Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade. He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2020-03-08\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Do We Know What We Know: Quantum Mechanics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12591,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12584\/revisions\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}