On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:22 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 2:38 PM Brent Meeker <[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. > The point is, Shrodinger went from: A) believing that what mathematics of his equation plainly said was happening about the cat lead to a contradiction/paradox/negative result to B) Starting to come around to believing it might actually be describing reality as it is. Jason -- 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.
