On Sunday, June 10, 2018 at 4:36:37 PM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > Later, hopefully soon, I will make the case that Schrodinger's Cat implies > that Decoherence Theory false, since the former shows the fallacy (or, if > you will, the absurdity), of incorporating macro systems in superpositions, > which is more or less the starting state equation used in the latter. Stay > tuned. AGT >
*The simplest argument is that macro objects (other than the precious few exceptions previously noted, such as Buckyballs) have no well defined deBroglie wave lengths. Hence, they cannot participate in a superposition of states which inherently implies interference among its components. A macro object has a huge set of individual entanglements, each with its own well defined deBroglie wave length, but the net interference among them statistically washes out to zero. We can go further. A macro object, virtually by definition, can NEVER be isolated from its environment. Thus, it can NEVER manifest a well defined wave length to make a superposition possible. It's NOT the case that a macro object can participate in a superposition for even a very short time and then decohere. This is where Schroedinger went wrong. He assumed a non existent superposition of states, which if existent would imply the cat must be alive and dead simultaneously, even if for a very short duration if decoherence theory is applied. But decoherence theory posits a solution for a non existent problem. It assumes that a superposed state can exist for a macro object for an exceedingly short time until it decoheres. However, as is the case for Scroedinger's cat or any macro object, it can NEVER be ISOLATED from its environment, which is the necessary condition for positing a superposition. Thus, decoherence theory need not be applied; indeed, should not be applied. And if it isn't generally applied for macro entities, then the wf cannot imply other worlds. CMIIAW. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
