On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Latitudes and longitudes do not interfere. > Maybe Schrodinger's Wave Equation doesn't interfere either, only other worlds do, and maybe the wave equation is just a way, and certainly not the only way, humans have of describing that interference between worlds. > Deutsch and Hayden argues that the many-world picture, and its locality, > are more simply explained in the Heisenberg picture. Those are different > formalism for the same theory > If 2 things as radically different as Schrodinger's Wave and Heisenberg's Matrices do the same thing then it sounds like both are just different retellings of the same story, the same plot but just using different symbols in the mathematical vocabulary; rather like polar and Cartesian coordinates. Maybe we should take seriously and think through the implications of what mathematicians have been saying for years, mathematics is a language. > >> In fact about 9 months BEFORE Schrodinger came out with his wave >> equation Heisenberg had his own version of Quantum Mechanics that had >> nothing to do with waves. In fact Heisenberg despised the Schrodinger Wave >> Equation because he felt that "a good theory must be based on directly >> observable magnitudes". And nobody can observe a quantum wave function. >> >> > Heisenberg was influenced by the positivism of the time (The Vienna > circles, the young Wittgenstein, etc.). That was very bad philosophy > It may have been very bad philosophy but it was very good science. Heisenberg's formulation of Quantum Mechanics worked just as well as Schrodinger's and in fact needed fewer assumptions; Schrodinger assumed that everything that occurred in the physical world at the fundamental level could be visualized by the human mind, Heisenberg didn't need that assumption but his matrix algebra still produced results that were just as good as Schrodinger's Wave. I admit I feel a little unfulfilled if a theory is not visualizable, but it could be argued that the theory with the fewer assumptions is the better one. > and we can say that is is virtually abandoned. > Not by physicists! John K Clark -- 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.
