On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 6:55:36 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 10:20:09 PM UTC, Pierz wrote: >> >> Obviously you can't measure the particle simultaneously in the up and >> down state. Nobody believes that. Nobody is arguing it. > > > *Haven't you ever heard of physicists, some prominent who write books > about QM for the lay public, who assert that one of the mysteries of QM is > that a particle can be in two places at the same time, or cats can be alive > and dead simultaneously, or spin can be Up and Dn simultaneously? If you > haven't, you're not paying attention. AG* > > >> *"a particle can be in two places at the same time"*
A path-integral realist (one who is "starting from a framework in which *histories* are fundamental")* might formulate it this way: "a particle can have multiple histories — only one of which survives measurement" * *Hilbert Spaces from Path Integrals* https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0589 - pt -- 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.
