OK, I like Omnes too, and Fuchs and Peres. But their view is that the wavefunction is
just a calculational device thru which we make predictions. So the collapse of the
wavefunction is just us learning new results and revising our prediction.
But you seem to have a more physical model of what happens, "...when the frame of the
particles and the observer are aligned by a common dimensional event (the measurement of
the spin of one particle by the observer) that both frames become aligned and thus the
spin of the second particle becomes apparent in the observer's frame." Does this
alignment have a randomness?
Brent
On 12/28/2013 4:41 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
Brent,
Sure, of course. I see what you mean now. Omnes is of course correct. That's what the
equations tell us, that the results will be probabilistic. It's Everett who is off his
rocker here by trying to impose some outlandish alternative interpretation....
Edgar
On Saturday, December 28, 2013 7:33:20 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 12/28/2013 4:25 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
> Brent,
>
> You are implying there is some difficulty in calculating specific
decoherence results
> yet the people who are performing experiments in decoherence have no such
problem in
> calculating them with no reference at all to either of your
interpretations or
choosing
> between them... The math works just fine in our single world and produces
predictable
> results...
But it produces probabilities. And the experiments confirm that the
measured values
are
random with the distribution predicted. But each measurement only produces
one of the
probable values. So the question is how do you get from the probabilities,
which is
what
QM+decoherence predicts, to actual realized unique values? Omnes just says
what do you
expect QM is a probabilistic theory. Everett says they all happen every
time with
different values and we 'happen' every time as observers with correlated
experiences.
What do you say?
Brent
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