Recent content by pholmes

We're not talking about calculation here. I'm talking about overall behavior in the experiment. Take a double-slit with electrons being sent through causing a nice visible interference pattern on the detection screen some distance behind the slits. First I'll list what I think people are...

Oh yes, my first bullet * was wrong, should be "Decoherence" instead of "collapse of wave function". Measurement would be a cause, Decoherence would be an effect. Now I am seeing there was a thread back in December 2022 "Can we all agree consciousness is not required to collapse wave...

Thanks for many helpful replies. I know it's been 6 days, I can't always engage with threads every 2 days. I should probably mark myself as "High School level" instead of college level. Even though briefly a Physics Major in college before switching to EE, I never took the Modern Physics...

I apologize. I found the reference where I thought it said that, and it doesn't really say that. I searched at length and failed to find any other reputable site on the internet that said that. This is only the 2nd thread I have started. I'll keep the quality up in the future.

How and/or why does the existence of the quantum of action (Planck's constant) cause indeterminism?

If I say: "The cat is either alive or dead, and I don't know which, and I'll find when I open the box. No change to the cat happens when I open the box. The only change is that I (myself) now know in what condition the cat is, and had been for some time." But then a Quantum Physics Scientist...

Please help me find websites describing easy to understand experiments discovering how little of a Conscious Observer is needed to cause wave function collapse? Is just a sensor, that "could have been" attached to a reporting device, that "could have been" looked-at by a Conscious Human...