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Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Feynman's bug (hot plate) in generality.Yes, but I think the right question is this: Can general relativity (GR) "change" topology? Or more precisely, is GR a theory of the... -
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He says "associated with". Why not just "is"? Because actually, no, the position he describes is not Everett's relative state... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.If he doesn't like the Everett type interpretation, then why (at the bottom of page 7) does he say "The position I am going to advocate... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.Maybe he does not explain it very well, but since now I'm in the charitable mood, I tend to interpret it as an implicit assumption of an... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.For a change, let me now try to analyze the Coleman's argument by using the charity principle... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.I argued that Coleman assumed interpretation B, according to which the observer does not distinguish different straight trajectories. It... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.On the contrary, it's crucial to it, for the reasons I and others explained several times. -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.Because if you can prove it, you have solved the problem of measurement in QM and deserved the Nobel prize. :partytime: -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.Do you think that there is a specific trajectory? -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.You already asked me and I already answered. See #108. -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.And my claim is that it depends on what one means by "seeing a definite trajectory". It is correct in interpretation B (in which... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.Yes, my post #106 is also written in that spirit, so we basically agree on that. -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.Given that you don't know that, are you still certain about your claim in the post #105? -
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As a quick aside, as I mentioned in post #94, Mott has nothing to do with Coleman's argument. Mott's analysis is correct, and in fact it... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Sidney Coleman's opinion on interpretation in his Dirac lecture.The state ##|C_1\rangle## corresponds to the trajectory ##T_1##, while the state ##|C_2\rangle## corresponds to the trajectory ##T_2##...