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No. You have a system consisting of a particle and a measuring device. That's true regardless of what outcome you measure. The sentence... -
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What in the math of QFT corresponds to "the thing that is out there"? -
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By quantum field i didn't mean the operators, i meant the thing that is out there. I thought that there are no interpretational... -
bhobba replied to the thread Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics.As do I The more I read Fields and Their Quanta: Making Sense of Quantum Foundations, the more I like it. I must emphasise that the... -
bhobba replied to the thread Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics.That's why I used the word compelling. One can still maintain the fields of QFT as just a calculational aid. Indeed, the Effective... -
bhobba replied to the thread Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics.Well, since this has touched on Realism, I suggest reading Fields and their Quanta by Art Hobson... -
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Scientific Realism “In the philosophy of science, this is the doctrine that we can and should accept well-established scientific... -
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Imagine that we were living in a simulation. Everything would look the same, but there would be no force of gravity, as such. A... -
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I guess I'm late to the party. I struggled with this as an undergrad until I read somewhere that there is no connection between math and... -
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Note that the Rovelli paper above does not consider the question of the existence of an electron, as we have been discussing it here... -
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The fundamental principles of QFT, however, include many measurement operators that can be constructed by smearing the measurement... -
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??? How can the observer's brain solve the Schrödinger equation in real time? -
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Maybe not an electrostatic field, but shooting an electrodynamic field at somebody's head is possible. It normally won't hurt, and often... -
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One could argue that if the electron does not exist between measurements, then it cannot be described by a state or wave-function (or... -
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Put in an extreme instrumental form, I think "The ultimate test for a model is the agreement of its predictions with experiments"...