Quantum Mechanics for Military Officers

[marcus]

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0609124
Quantum mechanics for military officers
Andrei Khrennikov
Plenary talk at International Conference "Foundations of Probability and Physics-4", Vaxjo, June-2006, and at the Congress of "Quantum Structures Association", Malta, July-2006

"We present a trivial probabilistic illustration for representation of quantum mechanics as an algorithm for approximative calculation of averages."

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I suspect that the title of this paper is an example of what could be called "Slavic irony".

[CarlB]

So much of physics can be derived from the first principle of only use as many terms in the Taylor expansion as are needed to make the theory not completely trivial.

Carl

[selfAdjoint]

I suspect that the title of this paper is an example of what could be called "Slavic irony".

No. Read the start of his section 2, where he describes his principle source, and then look at the accompanying footnote. It would be a bold man who would publish a deliberate snarkism at the expense of his father-in-law, an artillery officer.

Let's not forget Ramanujan trained himself out of another special purpose cookbook.

[Chronos]

Disgruntled father-in-law with access to artillery, wife spending the weekend at the casino with Mom . . .