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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"...
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bhobba replied to the thread Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics.Why do we think Quantum Fields exist, and they imply the creation and annihilation of actual particles similar to the harmonic...
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How can you measure something that doesn't exist? Would two non-existent electrons be different from one non-existent electron? If...
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bhobba replied to the thread Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics.You can't throw an electric field at your head either, yet, according to Wigner's no-interaction theorem, it must actually exist...
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bhobba replied to the thread Insights Quantum Entanglement is a Kinematic Fact, not a Dynamical Effect.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes It's almost like religion here in Australia. You may think cricket is genteel and boring...
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bhobba replied to the thread Insights Quantum Entanglement is a Kinematic Fact, not a Dynamical Effect.Jingle bells, jingle bells. Darn Christmas time, good cheer, merriment and all that. I just got a copy. The only problem is, I...