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bhobba reacted to A. Neumaier's post in the thread Graduate Consistency of Relativistic QM with
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Talagrand is a mathematician who tried to understand standard relativistic QFT and then wrote his book about what he found. He is not... -
bhobba reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Undergrad New interpretation for the double slit experiment with light? with
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In quantum theory mean values are not measured by single measurements, only by large ensembles of measurements, in that sense ##\langle... -
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The paper does not offer a new explanation of interference experiments. It just uses the quantum optics explanation, which is old. What... -
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@ChrisF We appreciate the respect and the caution. We do not provide any form of pre publication support here. It needs to be published... -
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Yes, seriously in some philosophies of ethics and less seriously in new-age pseudo-philosophy. However this thinking has proven... -
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The OP refers to: Those are ways of describing the "consciousness causes collapse" interpretation of QM. The OP might not have... -
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But we don't know that consciousness is a "basic element of Physics". Chalmers might think it is (although at different times he says... -
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This is really a separate question from the one you're asking in this thread. If you want to discuss the Penrose-Hameroff proposal... -
bhobba reacted to sophiecentaur's post in the thread High School Electron absorbs photon, but what happens to the photon? with
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That's one way of perhaps making this stuff easier but ,imo, that is still too 'mechanistic' a description. The photon, as an entity, is... -
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Great question - and I genuinely wish I could contribute. I'd love to discuss it here on Physics Forums because honestly, this is... -
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I have never seen that in any book. Unless you mean the drawing of the wave function, it's difficult to draw a complex function, so... -
bhobba replied to the thread Graduate How to fix Relativistic QM so it's consistent?.In QFT, point taken. Thanks Bill -
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I think you meant to write:$$-\frac{\hbar^2}{2 m}\nabla^2\phi_n+V\phi_n=E_n\phi_n$$ -
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Introductory textbooks usually deal a lot with time-independent Hamiltonians of the form$$H=\frac{\mathbf{P}^2}{2 m}+V(\mathbf{x})\quad... -
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I don't see that at all. Consider, e.g., Griffiths & Schroeter, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (3rd ed.) in which the authors solve...