On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> Many, perhaps most, physicists do exactly that because they believe in >> the "Shut Up And Calculate" quantum interpretation and are only interested >> in predicting how far to the right a indicator needle on a meter moves in a >> particular experiment. But for some of us that feels unsatisfying and would >> like to have a deeper understanding about what's going on at the quantum >> level and wonder why there is nothing in the mathematics that says anything >> about a wave collapsing. > > > * >That's not true. "The mathematics" originally included the Born rule > as part of the axiomatic structure of QM. * > A axiom is supposed to be simple and self evidently true, the Born rule is neither; and it wasn't derived from first principles it was picked for reasons that were were empirical and practical, for some strange reason the damn thing works. Also, the square of the absolute value of the complex wave produces a probability which collapses into a certainty when a observation is made, but the mathematics can't say when that happens because it doesn't say what a observation is. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
