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bhobba reacted to A. Neumaier's post in the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak? with
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...because after calculation, every user (as long as shutting up = not using the word 'interpretation' ) is allowed to interpret the... -
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Kolmogorov's axioms of probability are perfectly compatible with QM. In fact, I am not aware of any coherent interpretation of QM based...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak?.My bad for implying that's the only possible definition. Thanks Bill
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No, a particle is a click in a particle detector. :-p Now seriously, the word "particle" has many different meanings in physics, so...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak?.Well, if you use the number operator, you get the number of particles, but they aren't products of single particles. Thanks Bill
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While this is true, my understanding is that representation theory yields just a solution of the reps field equations. The corresponding...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak?.I think asking why is always valuable. The answer may be that, at least for me, formalism alone is fine. Thanks Bill
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The best places to start are https://quantum.phys.cmu.edu/CQT/...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak?.I would add that it's a mathematical model. You can try to understand why the model works or just use it. I suppose it's a matter of...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak?.Some may view it as an interpretation itself. Ensemble, for example, in some sense, is just to shut up and calculate using the...
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bhobba reacted to Morbert's post in the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak? with Like.
I'm comfortable navigating literature around instrumentalist, consistent/decoherent histories, many-worlds, and the unistochastic...
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What is left to explain once you've done the calculations, made the predictions, and confirmed them by experiment? Yes, this is...
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Half a step above basic: Instrumentalist / Copenhagen / Ballentine style Ensemble I was mostly taught this during my undergrad/grad...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak?.The following suggests it may not be an interpretation, but a different theory...
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bhobba reacted to RUTA's post in the thread Graduate How many interpretations of QM do you speak? with Like.
If you're willing to accept a principle explanation in lieu of a constructive explanation for polarization-entangled photons, try this one: