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PeterDonis replied to the thread I Is there a bad intuition or bad explanation in quantum entanglement?.I don't see why they would. My understanding is that non-relativistic QM is the non-relativistic limit of standard relativistic QFT. My... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread I Energy*time uncertainty for particle decay.That's not a question that really makes sense. Suppose I asked you to give me an example of the basics of arithmetic. What would you...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A Dirac's integral for the energy-momentum of the gravitational field.MTW is a heavy lift (both figuratively and literally--it's the heaviest textbook by poundage that I've ever owned :wink:), but it is of...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread B Is a table levitating possible, even at a minuscule probability?.Classical mechanics doesn't say a table levitating is impossible, just extremely, extremely, extremely improbable. A classical model...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A Dirac's integral for the energy-momentum of the gravitational field.I think what he's trying to say is that, within certain limits (basically staying within the special class of coordinate charts he's...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread A Dirac's integral for the energy-momentum of the gravitational field.It's certainly obvious to me, and it seems like it was obvious to MTW when they wrote their textbook. :wink: With Dirac it's often hard...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread I Is there a bad intuition or bad explanation in quantum entanglement?.Ah, I see; you're really thinking in terms of QFT, not non-relativistic QM. In QFT the whole idea of the "state" of a system is...
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PeterDonis replied to the thread I Energy*time uncertainty for particle decay.The kind that's presented in introductory QM textbooks, like Griffiths. :wink: In other words, nothing "specialized", just the basics of...
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You have to go for it and learn and study matter waves if that's what the book does. Matter waves were part of an early version of QM... -
PeterDonis replied to the thread I Question about discussions around quantum interpretations.Even this is interpretation dependent. In the MWI, for example, the unitary evolution of the state is completely deterministic, even...
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Actually only the first half is part of the Copenhagen interpretation. The second half is not, since an integral part of the Copenhagen...
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This is not part of the 7 rules - the part common to all interpretations. It is only part of the Copenhagen interpretation.
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Rule 3 only states that the state of an isolated system evolves deterministically. It only follows that the state of open system only...
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But mathematicians talk, e.g., about the probability with which a particular digit appears in the deterministic sequence of digits of...
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In this case you'd quote (in words) a standard reference for the questionable 'only' part of this claim!