From: *Jason Resch* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 7:22 PM Bruce Kellett
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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.
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.
Not every useful description tells us what reality is "really" like.
Besides, we have come a long way since Schrödinger, so he isn't the
final word on anything at all.
Bruce
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