On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
* > Have you still not looked into Jacob Barandes formulation of QM? * > *Barandes says when a particle hits a screen it shows up add a specific spot, and I agree with that, but then Barandes decrees the detection of that spot is the only thing that is "real"; and if you detect a particle at position X and a bit later you detect the same particle at position Y then those are the only positions that are "real", so you're not allowed to think about where the particle was or what it was doing between X and Y. It seems to be all he's done is redefined the word "real", and he's coming perilously close to "Shut Up And Calculate". * *Barandes says that at the quantum level processes are fundamentally random. Well maybe, they certainly seem random to us but I'm not so sure they're fundamentally random, if Many Worlds is correct then they are not. But then, in what seems to me to be a contradiction of what he just said, he claims that quantum processes are non-Markovian, behavior doesn't just depend on the current situation, particles have a memory of past events. Barandes doesn't even attempt to explain where or how that information is encoded. * *Barandes's idea does not produce any new predictions, he says his goal is to make the quantum world more intuitive and less philosophically perplexing. In that Barandes has certainly failed, at least in my case. * * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* xrx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1u%3D1mcGioyJFw-rAkQ7HGe_O4ZVeobfbFnukbY9K_uhA%40mail.gmail.com.
