PeterDonis's latest activity

What's your definition of "looks official"? No, it's because what we directly perceive is our past light cone, not "now". For example...

It's an interpretation, so not testable as far as we know. It's far and away the most popular interpretation, and fits well with the...

@DarkloidNeos the article you reference, unfortunately, is not just presenting the speculations or opinions of various physicists it...

This Insights article might be relevant...

I'm not sure what the issue or apparent paradox is here. Can you elaborate? Nobody thinks it is. Our current standard model of the...

I am sure the wavefunction is not real but complex-valued :oldbiggrin:

Historically, there have been legal systems that worked very differently from ours. David Friedman has a book about them--drafts of each...

After some cleanup, the thread is reopened.

Thread closed for moderation.

Two off topic posts have been deleted. All users, please use the Report button if you think a post violates the PF rules. Do not post...

Um, what? If you have a reference, you shouldn't have to "prepare" an answer. You should just post a link to the reference (textbook or...

Yes, there are certain interpretations of QM which say the wave function is real. But you were making a claim that didn't seem to depend...

And we say that to stop ourselves from making claims about what's "real" that aren't justified by the fact that we can use the equations...

But that doesn't make every variable in the equation we use to predict the outcome real. So I'm not following your logic here. See above.

But that doesn't mean variables used in equations are real. Equations and their variables are mathematical tools we use to make...