On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 10:03:30 PM UTC+2, 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 >
So, they claim that a neutron can be spatially separated from its spin if they perform a "weak measurement". A weak measurement does not collapse the wave function, does it? So the neutron is still spread out as a wave and so is its spin, no? -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d405465b-247f-4381-a6b6-f307d4a2e516%40googlegroups.com.
