On Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 1:37:58 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:
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> On 11/14/2018 11:23 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
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> On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 6:55:36 PM UTC-6, [email protected]
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>> On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 10:20:09 PM UTC, Pierz wrote:
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>>> Obviously you can't measure the particle simultaneously in the up and
>>> down state. Nobody believes that. Nobody is arguing it.
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>> *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*
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> *"a particle can be in two places at the same time"*
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> A path-integral realist (one who is "starting from a framework in which
> *histories* are fundamental")* might formulate it this way:
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> "a particle can have multiple histories — only one of which survives
> measurement"
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> Don't you need multiple histories to account for interference effects?
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> Brent
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Of course:
https://codicalist.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/retrosignaling-in-the-quantum-substrate/
But only one history of a "history bundle" is selected (survives). The
others die into the quantum substrate. :(
> * *Hilbert Spaces from Path Integrals*
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0589
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