On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 10:44:14 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 12/13/2017 2:20 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 9:15:36 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 12/13/2017 2:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> * BUT for a nucleus of a radioactive element, the nucleus is never >> Decayed and Undecayed SIMULTANEOUSLY.* >> >> Sure it is. It's in a coherent superposition of those states until it >> interacts with the environment. >> >> Brent >> > > * That's the conventional QM wisdom and the cause of the paradox of a cat > Alive and Dead simultaneously. As I explained, the fallacy is rooted in an > unjustified generalization of the double slit experiment where the > probability waves do, in fact, exist simultaneously. What waves do you > claim are interacting for the radioactive nucleus to produce coherence? > Tell me about them. I am from Missouri. AG* > > > You seem to think that coherence requires two different waves. This is > the wrong way to look at it. In Young's slits experiment there is only one > wave, which goes through both slits and interferes with itself. And > unstable nucleus has a probability amplitude that includes a "decayed" part > and a "not decayed" part. It's a tunneling problem. > > Brent >
*See, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(physics*) *How can you have coherence with a single wave? What does it mean? How would you define it? AG* -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
