It seems to me that double-slit/single-photon experiments illustrate the approach to quantum equilibrium in great detail. Richard
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:22 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Who knows? Perhaps the De Broglie-Bohm enthousiast can get some further > insights from this experiments allowing them to e.g. predict subtle > patterns in interference phenomena that shouldn't be there acording to > orthodox quantum mechanics. > > De Broglie-Bohm theory looks to me a bit like the old aether theory of > electromagnetism that preceded special relativity. Strictly speaking there > can be devations from the Born rule, but they always assume that there is > so-called "quantum equlibrium" making the Born rule is valid. So, my > (non-expert) opinion is that you should look here first, why can't you > device some experiment where you are most likely going to violate this > assumption? > > This is also explained here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_non-equilibrium > > "The existence of quantum non-equilibrium states has not been verified > experimentally; quantum non-equilibrium is so far a theoretical construct. > The relevance of quantum non-equilibrium states to physics lies in the fact > that they can lead to different predictions for results of experiments, > depending on whether the De Broglie–Bohm theory in its stochastic form or > the Copenhagen interpretation is assumed to describe reality. (The > Copenhagen interpretation, which stipulates the Born rule a priori, does > not foresee the existence of quantum non-equilibrium states at all.) That > is, properties of quantum non-equilibrium can make certain classes of > Bohmian theories falsifiable according to the criterion of Karl Popper." > > > > Citeren Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>: > > > Hi all, >> >> I would like to know what people here make of this... >> http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality >> >> Cheers >> Telmo. >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
