On 5/30/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 3:03:30 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 5/30/2019 11:47 AM, Tomas Pales wrote:
On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 8:02:12 PM UTC+2, Brent wrote:
I wonder if philosophers have noticed that properties can be
separated from objects in quantum mechanics, c.f. Cheshire
Cat experiments?
What does it mean that a property is "separated" from an object?
That an object loses a property? That happens all the time.
arXiv:1312.3775v1 [quant-ph] 13 Dec 2013
Brent
We know that a molecule's histories can interfere with each other:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
In 2013, the double-slit experiment was successfully performed with
molecules that each comprised 810 atoms (whose total mass was over
10,000 atomic mass units
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_mass_units>).
Does this mean that a molecule's properties can be separated from itself?
That's a non-sequitur. A double-slit experiment is not the same as a
Cheshire cat experiment.
Brent
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