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Likewise, I'm expecting the next movie "The Last Jedi" to be a copy of The Empire Strikes Back. This time, it will be Old Luke Skywalker taking the place of Master Yoda, while Rey is in place of young Luke Skywalker. And yet, I'm worried that this reproduction will again leave out crucial...

But that's because things have been defined that way. We could have also defined them with phlogiston too, but it doesn't mean that phlogiston is some natural inherently superior term of reference. How are you claiming to measure velocity and time directly? What you seem to be measuring is the...

But the rate of time varies from one velocity frame to another. You're on Earth, I'm on a spaceship moving at some very high velocity relative to you. Which one of us is experiencing "the real rate of time"? Back in the days when you and I were growing up in the same village/town, then maybe...

Why can't we re-derive or re-define these same things with respect to entropy? 2nd Law says that any natural process occurs with an increase in entropy.

So here's something I found http://discovermagazine.com/2017/may-2017/the-war-over-reality So it seems there are differences in actual predictions between DeBroglie-Bohm and Copenhagen interpretations. And to me, that's the way it should be - if the ideas are different in some ways, then that...

Thank you for your reply. So the quasi-particle exists inside the crystal(graphene), and can move masslessly. But if I apply an electric field while it's moving, then it will move non-masslessly (ie. move in a way that exihibits mass) In each of these cases, will the surrounding...

So I've read that electrons traveling inside a sheet of graphene are said to travel "masslessly". I'm interpreting this as meaning "zero apparent mass" and not zero actual mass. Presumably, the graphene doesn't somehow weigh less than the sum of its constituent electrons and nuclei. But given...

Some theorists have put forth the idea of an atemporal universe - ie. a universe without time - claiming that time is an illusion or abstraction created as a placeholder for what is really entropy. https://phys.org/news/2011-04-scientists-spacetime-dimension.html So they're claiming that...

Alright, so can we at least say that the DeBroglie-Bohm/PWT interpretation is currently no less valid than the Copenhagen interpretation? (At least in regards to describing experimental results) Is there any other area or experiment where DeBroglie-Bohm/PWT comes up short, as compared to...

Thanks so very much for your enlightening answers. :smile: But so then there's no way to design an experiment which will exploit/highlight the difference in interpretation between Copenhagen and DeBroglie-Bohm/PWT? Surely if there are conceptual differences, there must be some way to expose them...

Hmm, so I see another thread on this forum mentioned DeBroglie-Bohm theory, talking about Non-Local Hidden Variables and mentioning that DeBroglie-Bohm would require those in order to achieve a determinate universe. And Non-Local Hidden Variables were mentioned as being variables/influences that...

Anyway, regarding the whole Non-Locality thing, why is Non-Locality necessary for the PWT to work? Why wouldn't the indeterminacy be related to velocity vector instead of location? The way I interpret it, is that the quantum particle can have determinate position and an indeterminate velocity...

To me, it seems like the uniqueness and non-reproduceability of the outcomes on various quantum objects is due to influences imparted onto them by something like Brownian Motion. And furthermore, Brownian Motion would explain various things, like DeBroglie Wavelength, Vacuum fluctuations for...

To me, that implies Quantum Objects are experiencing something like Brownian Motion.

I apologize for my ignorance, but so let me quote Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/science/uncertainty-principle Is that a better articulated definition? Personally, I've always thought that Heisenberg's Uncertainty, as it pertains to the fundamental nature of matter, was...