Hi Roger, How can you have a wave without some notion of spatial/temporal dimensions?
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everything-list, > > I don't believe that Descartes would accept the MWI. > Here's why: > > I think that the ManyWorldsInterpretation of QM is incorrect, > due to the mistaken notion (IMHO) that quantum waves > are physical waves, so that everything is physical and materialistic. > > This seems to deny "quantum weirdness" observed > in the two-slit experiment. Seemingly if both the wave > and the photon are physical, there should be nothing weird > happening. > > My own view is that the weirdness arises because the > waves and the photons are residents of two completely > different but interpenetrating worlds, where: > > 1) the photon is a resident of the physical world, > where by physical I mean (along with Descartes) > "extended in space", > > 2) the quantum wave in nonphysical, being a resident of > the nonphysical world (the world of mind), which has no > extension in space. > > Under these conditions, there is no need > to create an additional physical world, since each > can exist as aspects of the the same world, > one moving in spactime and being physical, the other, like > mind, moving simulataneously in the nonphysical world > beyond spacetime. > > [Roger Clough], [[email protected]] > 1/12/2013 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
