On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10:12:58 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 9:26:53 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 4/12/2018 12:44 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> *Let's simplify the model. Instead of a Nitrogen molecule, consider a >> free electron at rest in some frame. Its only degree of freedom is spin >> IIUC. Is it your claim that this electron become entangled with its >> environment via its spin WF, which is a superposition of UP and DN? Does >> this spin WF participate in the entanglement? TIA, AG* >> >> >> The electron's spin dof can only become entangled with the environment by >> an interaction with the environment. >> >> Brent >> > > Does that happen spontaneously, in the absence of a measurement? AG >
If entanglement of a system with the environment requires measurement, and if virtually everything in the physical world is entangled with the environment, aka "the world" -- which seems to be the prevailing belief -- what concept of measurement do we need to explain this? 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.
