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Pretend I didn't say it. In fact, I'm going to delete the post.DrChinese said:You ARE funni. That's exactly what I was thinking, and I am waiting in suspense for the answers...
Pretend I didn't say it. In fact, I'm going to delete the post.DrChinese said:You ARE funni. That's exactly what I was thinking, and I am waiting in suspense for the answers...
arkajad said:What's wrong with some randomness?
ThomasT said:And, by the way, I think you should pay attention to, and respect, Zonde's posts. He really is much more knowledgeable than both of us. And yes, I know, you're wondering how I know these things (like, eg., that billschnieder is a working scientist) -- well I just know these things and I'm not going to tell you how I know these things.
DrChinese said:You ARE funni. That's exactly what I was thinking, and I am waiting in suspense for the answers...
ThomasT said:Pretend I didn't say it. In fact, I'm going to delete the post.
ThomasT said:In fact, the quantum theory is ONLY about measurements, no more and no less. On what other basis would you develop a statistical probabilistic theory?
ThomasT said:Ok, at this time I think I should retract my assertion that "the quantum theory is ONLY about measurements, no more and no less" (apologies to Heisenberg).
ThomasT said:the quantum theory is about measurements, ie., the behavior of instruments ... this is what the qm matrix mechanics of Heisenberg is based on
tom.stoer said:One can savely say that QM is about "accessable information on quantum systems" but one should be aware of the fact that measurement itself is still a mystery in QM.
Can you elaborate on them? I know different interpretations, not formalisms. Can you explain what you by "treat"? Is it more than "interprete"?arkajad said:Well, that depends on which QM you have in mind. There are many of them and they differ one from the other by the way they treat "measurements" and, more generally, "events".
tom.stoer said:Can you elaborate on them? I know different interpretations, not formalisms. Can you explain what you by "treat"? Is it more than "interprete"?
tom.stoer said:Due to new approaches like decoherence it seems likely that the reason why only classical states (= vanishing off-diagonal elements of density matrices w.r.t. a basis defined by the measuring device) are observed becomes clear even quantitatively.