Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-21 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:48:35PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: If quantum mechanics was done using a real-valued Hilbert space, you simply don't get wavelike interference patterns. To my knowledge, you don't get interference patterns for *positive* real-valued

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:31:20PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: Hi Russel, you are right, a *positive* real Hilbert space is a wrong term. However, the point of my comment was to express a belief that your sentence If quantum mechanics was done using a real-valued Hilbert space, you

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:48:35PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: If quantum mechanics was done using a real-valued Hilbert space, you simply don't get wavelike interference patterns. To my knowledge, you don't get interference patterns for *positive* real-valued Hilbert space, but for

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 14-janv.-08, à 17:20, Günther Greindl a écrit : Hi, Very interesting thesis Mirek. I have download it, and will certainly try to dig a bit more on it some week-ends. I second that. For christmass, I asked my girlfrind to give me The Wisdom of Insecurity, Computability: An

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-14 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 11-janv.-08, à 17:32, Mirek Dobsicek a écrit : Very interesting thesis Mirek. I have download it, and will certainly try to dig a bit more on it some week-ends. Thanks, hopefully you will find something interesting in there. I see you don't cite Everett, which indeed is not necessary

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-14 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi, Very interesting thesis Mirek. I have download it, and will certainly try to dig a bit more on it some week-ends. I second that. For christmass, I asked my girlfrind to give me The Wisdom of Insecurity, Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory, and Godel's Theorem:

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-11 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Very interesting thesis Mirek. I have download it, and will certainly try to dig a bit more on it some week-ends. Thanks, hopefully you will find something interesting in there. I see you don't cite Everett, which indeed is not necessary for the practice of quantum computing. But your

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 07-janv.-08, à 14:48, Mirek Dobsicek a écrit : If quantum mechanics was done using a real-valued Hilbert space, you simply don't get wavelike interference patterns. To my knowledge, you don't get interference patterns for *positive* real-valued Hilbert space, but for real-valued

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-07 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
If quantum mechanics was done using a real-valued Hilbert space, you simply don't get wavelike interference patterns. To my knowledge, you don't get interference patterns for *positive* real-valued Hilbert space, but for real-valued Hilbert space you do. Check

Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2007-12-20 Thread Jason
Both Russell Standish's Theory of Nothing and Wei Dai's really simple interpretation of quantum mechanics suggest that the mere existence of all possible states is all that is needed to explain quantum mechanics. While I can understand how it would leads to unpredictability I was wondering how

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2007-12-20 Thread Russell Standish
I'm not sure how Wei Dai would answer this, but this is where it comes from in my theory: Interference, along with most of the other weird aspects of quantum mechanics is a direct result of the measure of observer moments being complex. If quantum mechanics was done using a real-valued Hilbert