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bhobba reacted to A. Neumaier's post in the thread Undergrad A Heuristic View of QM: Axioms & Gleason's Theorem with
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For most of quantum mechanics you need the canonical commutation relations. This was Heisenberg's starting point, and cannot be deduced... -
bhobba reacted to CoolMint's post in the thread Undergrad A Heuristic View of QM: Axioms & Gleason's Theorem with
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Mathemeatics is not invented but discovered. Evidently it underlies the relationships that eventually turn into observations and this is... -
bhobba reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture with Like.
I don't think that that's what the relational interpretation says. The crucial issue is the interpretation of entanglement, because...
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bhobba reacted to martinbn's post in the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture with Like.
That the particles, fields, atoms, molecules and so on, exist and interact with each other. By the way I think that the analogy with...
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bhobba reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture with Like.
Are you saying that relational QM has a clear ontology? If you do, what is it?
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bhobba reacted to gentzen's post in the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture with Like.
Careful, he only said "associated with Hugh Everett". Since Coleman is very careful with words, this means that he is not claiming to...
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bhobba reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture with Like.
If the geocentric model preferred by the catholic church is the metaphor for the orthodox interpretation of QM, then the heliocentric...
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bhobba reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture with Like.
I don't know whether Coleman's position contains something original, but there is something else that I find problematic. Coleman first...
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bhobba reacted to gentzen's post in the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture with Like.
pines-demon quoted from Sidney Coleman's Dirac Lecture "Quantum Mechanics in Your Face" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12671) and martinbn...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Why does QM split into two evolution types? with Like.
It's not. It's a matter of "that's how we make accurate predictions". That's how any physical theory works: you figure out what...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Why does QM split into two evolution types? with Like.
No, that's not what "no collapse" interpretations (like the MWI) say. They say unitary evolution just continues, all the time. Yes, part...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Why does QM split into two evolution types? with Like.
Um, because that's how the theory works? And doing it that way makes correct predictions? Um, the latter? Since that "mathematical...
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Why does QM split into two evolution types? with Like.
I think the answer to this depends on which QM interpretation you adopt. Your step 3 (which is usually called "collapse" or "state...
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bhobba reacted to berkeman's post in the thread Graduate Rotating Disk Method to Attain Light Speed? with Like.
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bhobba reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Rotating Disk Method to Attain Light Speed? with Like.
Um, yes, you are: This is challenging the established theory--just with nothing to back the challenge up but vague generalities...