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The Alpha Experiment at CERN has finally produced a paper on whether antimatter falls towards the earth under gravity. The research confirms that antimatter acts identically to regular matter in regards to gravity. Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter. Anderson...

Then let me ask it this way. Is what is suggested to occur in the Archimedes Experiment perfectly consistent with your understanding of the physical world?

In that preprint, Jaffe says, Is the Archimedes Experiment an attempt to demonstrate such a phenomena?

>> see Jaffe Tell me what you meant by see Jaffe. Is this a reference of some kind?

I have created this thread to discuss the physics of the the upcoming Archimedes Experiment to be performed in Sardinia. Interesting in its own right, including issues on whether Casimir cavities will have varying masses; whether vacuum energy interacts with gravity; and purely engineering...

Vacuum energy is predicted by Quantum Field Theory, and also independently corroborated by recent observations in cosmology involving accelerated expansion. More corroboration occurs in superconducting cuprates exhibiting quantum criticality, and in the Casimir effect The island of Sardinia...

This is wildly interesting. We need a whole new thread on this alone.

Funny that you should mention textbooks and peer-review. I found your request funny, because if we just stick to textbook+peer review, we can't really talk about "measurement" in any watercooler conversational sense. Is it mostly the case that textbooks are not going to mention...

addendum: I mis-spoke earlier in my claim that we are making an exact copy of an entire quantum state. I should have been more precise in my wording. I meant to communicate that an attempt to make exact copies will give you a set of correlated copies in nature, who will be dis-correlated...

( -- Richard Feynman. Eselan Institute Workshop. 1985. ) With blessings of the moderators, I will post a link to the video of this Feynman lecture, where he says the above. It is possible this Eselan video already exists in this forum's archives.

(This is kind of a sidebar here but) how far down can we isolate the exact phenomena of "measurement" ? Let me toss out two plausible answers off the top of my head just to spur discussion. Feel free to reject, correct, and criticize as you see fit. (1) 'measurement' occurs when an exact...

Wineland, Itano, et al, Phys. Rev. Vol.41 no.5, 1 March 1990. Quantum Zeno Effect. https://courses.physics.illinois.edu/phys513/sp2019/reading/week5/QZenoWineland.pdfKim, Yu, et al. Arxiv preprint, 13 March 1999. A Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9903047.pdf

Under several historical experiments, measurement back-action has exhibited the ability the suppress a system's transitions to other states, especially when measurements are taken at a high frequency in time. This phenomena has become known as the Quantum Zeno Effect. In short, a quantum...

201 pages. Okay, that's a whole book. I will try to keep my analysis on the abstract and the TOC. {:music: intermission music } I have returned from some skimming and post my reaction . I understand that the authors promote the "statistical interpretation", which is fine. However, I was...

So I found this preprint, which is authored by Antony Valentini [1906.10761] Foundations of statistical mechanics and the status of the Born rule in de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory It looks great so far. For me it is a page-turner, honestly. He talks quite a lot about Boltzmann. Since PDFs...