objective existence imply ditinguishability
The formulation of quantum theory does not comply with the notion of objective existence of elementary particles. Objective existence independent of observation implies the distinguishability of elementary particles. In other words: If elementary...
The issue which is not addressed in all the above discussion is whether
particles have an objective existence independent of observations.
It is not addressed because if they did then they are distinguishable. Or if elementary particles are indistinguishable then matter cannot have existence...
Just a thoght; what if hidden variables are responsible for very long time effects, (effects that are noticable only after extreamly long time compared with human time)?
I am thinking of Bohm example, about evolution and random chance?
to decrease entropy you must apply work, this work will coase an increase of entropy somewhere else. But I do not think there is an example of entropy decreasing spontaneously, unles you go back to the beginning of life (for which we cannot say exactly what happened)
The formulation of quantum theory does not comply with the notion of objective
existence of elementary particles. Objective existence independent of observation
implies the distinguishability of elementary particles. In other words: If elementary
particles have an objective existence...
Thank you for your answer, I was not near a computer for a while, so I did not answer, but as I started to think about what you said, which seemed very reasonable to me at first many questions came into my mind;
Does that mean that when a comet finaly gets captured by the sun's gravity, it's...
Thank you for the answer, but the fundamental question seems still open, what is actually the difference between distinguishable and indistinguishable particles, and when do they become one or the other? Are those circumstances some sort of an empiric mathematical definition...
I am not sure I should be in this thread, I studied physics many years ago, quit my PhD, and went into high tech, lately I got interested in Physics again, I was surprised by how little things changed in 25 years. While technology changed inside out, I (I was mainly in image processing) it...
you are mentioning only spin, but in classical mechanics particles are distinguishable, also by position and time, could that be continuous? or almost? is the limit the uncertainty principle? So it is only mathematics? and we can say nothing more about it?
I looked in Feynman’s book, ‘statistical mechanics’, The derivation starts with a set of distinguishable particles, and then he continues to add the requirements of the different statistics.
Perhaps for some reason or other there is a wonderful correlation between the gaining and loosing of mass in the sun. That will makes the sun much more stable than we realize?
if what you say is true. then what about the debris the sun collect? is the sun getting heavier? aren't we the "moons" of the sun? shouldn't that affect us eventually?
yes, but we do not need a meteor, every day many tones of dust from space settle on earth, I was just wondering how much and how did it effect our trajectory, in the last 300 years since Kepler?
I was wondering what is happening with Earth accumulating dust and other debris from outer space? This must change earth’s weight? What is the rate of this accumulation of weight? The same thing must be happening to the sun, surely in proportion to the gravity field of the sun, so probably all...