From: *Jason Resch* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 2:38 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 7/30/2018 7:39 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
Does it exist and happen, or does the final result merely
materialize magically like the live or dead cat?
*In my view, we don't know how the final result materializes;
the great unsolved problem in QM, aka the measurement
problem, or a large part of it. But why introduce
intermediate values, which IIUC the theory says don't exist. AG *
Where does it say that? If I recall correctly, Schrodinger did
not put a caveat on his equation which said it cannot be used to
refer to anything that is real.
That was the point of Schroedinger's cat experiment. Schroedinger
invented it to show the fallacy of regarding the wf as real
because it led to the absurdity of a cat that was both alive and dead.
That was a bit before he started to realize that the equation for
which he won the Nobel prize might be true.
In physics, equations are neither true nor false. They are either useful
or not. And they require interpretation.
Bruce
Jason
“Schrödinger also had the basic idea of parallel universes shortly
before Everett, but he didn't publish it. He mentioned it in a lecture
in Dublin, in which he predicted that the audience would think he was
crazy. Isn't that a strange assertion coming from a Nobel Prize
winner—that he feared being considered crazy for claiming that his
equation, the one that he won the Nobel Prize for, might be true.” --
David Deutsch
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