On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 5:33:57 PM UTC, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Monday, August 6, 2018 at 4:54:28 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 10:16:17 PM UTC, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> As long as the universe is not resolved into individual subsystems *(that >>> is, no tensor decomposition of the WF)*, there is no measurement >>> problem. >>> >>> IMO, highly doubtful, or minimally outside the domain of quantum theory >>> where there is such a thing as measurements, and thus the dualism being >>> denied as the conceptual solution of the measurement problem. ( >>> https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0312059.pdf, page 8, bold added). AG >>> >> >> He does say that decoherence theory doesn't solve the measurement >> problem, yet he attributes it to decomposing the universe into individual >> subsystems. Why would the decomposition have that result? Am I misreading >> his position? AG >> > > This is a long paper and will take considerable time to go through with > even minimal diligence. > > LC >
According to the usual suspects, Schlosshauer is a prime source for understanding decoherence theory, but the issue I addressed puts that in question. Let me know your thoughts if / when you read his paper. 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 [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.
