On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 1:27 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 12/20/2018 1:49 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 8:05 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 6:16 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> *> The Shrodinger equation is deterministic.* >> >> >> Yes. >> >> > *Quantum Randomness, like a moving present, is a subjective >>> phenomenon.* >> >> >> The Schrodinger equation describes the quantum wave function using >> complex numbers, and that is not observable so it's subjective in the same >> way that lines of latitude and longitude are. However the square of the >> absolute value of the wave function is observable because that produces a >> probability that we can measure in the physical world that is objective, >> provided anything deserves that word; but it also yields something that is >> not deterministic. >> >> > It is still deterministic. If you say otherwise you are introducing > "collapse", and saying the other unobserved outcomes have stopped existing > and are no long part of the system. Schrodinger's equation does not say > this is what happened, it just says that you have ended up with a system > with many sets of observers, each of which observed different outcomes. > > > You seem to think Schroedinger's equation was handed down to him on stone > tablets from God. > QM is the most accurate and successful theory in science. I will believe it until something better comes along. 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.
