On Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 6:21:13 AM UTC, scerir wrote: > > IMO Schroedinger invented this manyworlds or manyminds or manywords > interpretation. >
I disagree. He's clearly criticizing the idea that all possible measurements are manifested in reality, which surely suggests other people were advancing a theory he strongly disliked. AG > Il 28 aprile 2018 alle 23.01 [email protected] <javascript:> ha > scritto: > > > > On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 5:55:16 AM UTC, scerir wrote: > > > > I think Schroedinger and his cat bear some responsibility. In trying to > debunk Born's probabilistic interpretation he appealed to the absurdity of > observation changing the physical state...even though no one had actually > proposed that. > > Brent > > > “The idea that the alternate measurement outcomes be not alternatives but > *all > *really happening simultaneously seems lunatic to the quantum theorist, > just *impossible. *He thinks that if the laws of nature took *this *form > for, let me say, a quarter of an hour, we should find our surroundings > rapidly turning into a quagmire, a sort of a featureless jelly or plasma, > all contours becoming blurred, we ourselves probably becoming jelly fish. > It is strange that he should believe this. For I understand he grants that > unobserved nature does behave this way – namely according to the wave > equation. . . . according to the quantum theorist, nature is prevented from > rapid jellification only by our perceiving or observing it.” > > -Erwin Schroedinger, *The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Dublin > Seminars (1949-1955) and Other Unpublished Assays *(Ox Bow Press, > Woodbridge, Connecticut, 1995). > > > Who is Schrodinger referring to? This was written before 1957, when > Everett published his MWI.? Were other theorists advancing the idea that > all alternatives are physically manifested in reality? 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
