On 28 Dec 2013, at 04:08, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
Jason,
Answers to your 3 questions.
1. No.
2. Determined by which observer? The cat is always either dead or
alive. It's just a matter of someone making a measurement to find out.
Then there is a collapse of the wave. I thought you disagree with
collapse.
Without collapse, if you look at a cat in the superposition dead
+alive, you end up yourself being described by a superposition seeing
a cat dead + seeing a cat alive. It is equivalent 'computationally)
with a self-duplication.
Bruno
3. Of course quantum computers are possible. Simple examples already
exist, but fundamentally all computations take place in logical
information space, as I've described before in a number of posts.
However I don't think the answers to these questions will help you
understand the theory. Refer to my other topic on this group titled
"Yes, my book does cover quantum reality", or refer to the book
itself, or I can explain further....
Edgar
On Friday, December 27, 2013 9:17:52 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote:
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]>
wrote:
All,
I'm starting a new topic on wavefunctions in this reply to Jason
because he brings up a very important issue.
The usual interpretation of wavefunctions are that particles are
'spread out' in the fixed common pre-existing space that quantum
theory mistakenly assumes, that they are superpostions of states in
this space.
However in my book on Reality in Part III, Elementals I propose
another interpretation, namely that particles are discrete
information entities in logical computational space, and that what
wavefunctions actually are is descriptions of how space can become
dimensionalized by decoherence events (since decoherence events
produce exact conserved relationships between the dimensional
variables of interacting particles).
I am not sure that I follow, but it sounds like an interesting idea.
It reminds me of Ron Garret's talk, where he says metaphorically "we
live in a simulation running on a quantum computer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
The mathematical results are exactly the same, its just a different
interpretation.
I am not sure if it is possible in any theory consistent with QM to
deny completely the notion of superposition. How can the single-
electron double-slit experiment be explained without the electron
being in more than one place at the same time?
I think it would help me understand your interpretation if you
answered the following questions. According to your interpretation:
1. Are faster-than-light influences involved?
2. When it is determined whether or not Schrodinger's cat is alive
or dead?
3. Are quantum computers possible, and if so, where are all the
intermediate computations performed?
Jason
However this approach that space is something that emerges from
quantum events rather than being a fixed pre-existing background to
events enables us to conceptually unify GR and QM and also resolves
all so called quantum 'paradox' as quantum processes are paradoxical
ONLY with respect to the fixed pre-existing space mistakenly assumed.
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