Recent content by erastotenes

This is one of the most widespread misconceptions imo. Each photon has a polarization state and polarization state reflects the phase relation of E and B. Photons are not bulletlike entities. Quants emerge in the theory as the result of field quantization. The difference between quantized...

There is a general lack of awarenes about the fact that Lorenzian interpretation (LI) and Einsteinin interpretation(EI) of relativity (which differ basically in their interpretation of the concept of simultaneity) are observationally indistinguishable. By LI I mean the assumption that the...

You can not extract the information about entanglement instantaneously by a single measurement at A . That there is entanglement becomes evident only by statistical evaluation of large number of measurements at A and B using Bell inequality test. Thus if you assign only each individual...

Yes. This is true. Since local realist theories are ruled out, there are two alternatives remaining: 1.Nonlocal realist theories. Namely where the wave function is a real entity. In this case the detection/measurement itself is a nonlocal(relativity violating) time evolution of a real...

Since the term "information" in your message was obscure whether it refers to setup of the experiment or whether it refers to "collected data" by measurement, I assumed you refer by the term information to the "data collected by measurement" and accordingly I meant by "calculating" the...

Example: We have a beam of electrons and double slit interference and two personA and B. If A makes n detections and calculates the wave function by extrapolating the result and calculates the wavelength of the beam. Then comes person B and makes also n measurements and therefore calculates...

Your description contains the following subtle contradiction between 2 paragraphs: If we can describe the first measurment according to Schrödinger equation(SE) , this means we have a deterministic description of the time evolution of the wave function. This means that we in principle would...

Yes but for the electromagnetic wave it is not the first term(you mention) but the second term on the right side in the following Maxwell equation that creates the magnetic part in the wave. curl B = j + dE/dt . (B magnetic field, j electric current, E electric field) The magnetic...

If I am not wrong in all cases we know, entanglement(interference) is the result of a common (interacting) past as it is in your case. So I would put the question this way: If two different pions decay at distant locations. Is it possible that the electron from the first decay can be...

In classical picture the oscillation of a charge without magnetic moment creates an electromagnetic wave that has of course both electric and magnetic components. The magnetic component of electromagnetic wave is not caused by magnetic proporties of the oscillating charge but it is induced as...

In order to explain why the problem does not go away, I have to express it in more clear semi-mathematical terms. The discussion is namely not a verbal one about our taste what we consider as physical. As you know the following continuity equation is valid for probability density for a...

As I said, I don't say that CI is wrong in its predictions. My objection to CI is that in order to avoid the questions and conflicts with special relativity regarding a dynamical mathematical description of detection process in terms of wave function time evolution, it declares the wave...

I want to add few words about what I think about a scientific approach to measurement problem. The cavity quantum electrodynamics (an atom and a photon in a micro cavity) has created in my opinion new possibilities to trace the time evoultion of the wave function with extraordinary time...

That we neglect a lot of parameters of reality when we create/test scientific teories is true not only for quantum mechanics but for all scientific theories. The mathematical description of the motion of a free falling stone is built upon a lot of simplifications averaging etc too. Even Newton...

I know. By the word "they" I didn't refer to the practising physicists but to founders of Copenhagen interpretation, specially to Niels Bohr . I know that, unless there is a special interest on the subject, for most of the practicing physicists this is only a "problem" in far foggy past as...