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bhobba reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation with
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The ##\alpha## and ##\beta## apply initially to the state of an electron, but after the interaction with a measuring device, they apply... -
bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation with Like.
@DaveBeal, as my responses should show you, you can't just wave your hands about what the MWI says. You have to do the actual math...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation with Like.
No, it is one single wave function with two terms in it--each term is referred to as a "branch". There's no question of whether it...
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bhobba reacted to Peter Morgan's post in the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation with Like.
In that book, Sean Carroll specifically focuses on Quantum Field Theory, with MWI as a side hustle. There are multiple ways to approach...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Sean Carroll's description of the Many Worlds interpretation with Like.
Sort of. There is only one wave function, which includes both branches; but in the wave function after the measurement, the electron is...
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It feels old. Howsomever, my mind does keep writing checks my body can't cash!
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There are old pilots and bold pilots but never any old and bold pilots.
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I gave up at -9,431 I'm older and have been retired since 2012, so I go down a new rabbit hole every few years. It's been quantum...
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bhobba reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread High School Electron absorbs photon, but what happens to the photon? with Like.
Yes, but its absolute value squared is not exactly the probability density of photon position.
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bhobba reacted to PeroK's post in the thread High School Electron absorbs photon, but what happens to the photon? with Like.
In QFT (Quantum Field Theory) photons are described by the quantized EM field. Or, perhaps it's better to say that the Quantum Field...
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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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Absolutely - but the is thread is 'Highschool' level and this level of discussion could confuse someone with Highschool Maths and... -
bhobba replied to the thread High School Interesting paper on QM in Scientific American.Fair enough. I really should have said for: HS students at the pop-sci level. Of course, at that level, there is confusion between a...
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bhobba posted the thread High School Interesting paper on QM in Scientific American in Quantum Physics.I found the following interesting: https://ctrk.klclick1.com/l/01KG5PPJ0FMG5PHBSE7YST7PXZ_12 I have no idea if you need a subscription...
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bhobba reacted to gentzen's post in the thread Graduate Heisenberg's Re-interpretation of Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization Condition in his 1925 'Umdeutung' paper (p12) with Like.
Here is the relevant passage from the paper (bold emphasis by me): Alfred Landé and Werner Heisenberg had defended such half-integral...
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bhobba replied to the thread Old man, new member.God, I hope so. My psychiatrist (I go for other reasons as well, due to depression associated with my autoimmune disease) has discussed...