On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 4:35:14 PM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote:
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> On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 3:30:56 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
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>> On 5/30/2019 1:17 PM, Philip Thrift wrote:
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>> On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 3:03:30 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
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>>> On 5/30/2019 11:47 AM, Tomas Pales wrote:
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>>> On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 8:02:12 PM UTC+2, Brent wrote:
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>>>> I wonder if philosophers have noticed that properties can be separated
>>>> from objects in quantum mechanics, c.f. Cheshire Cat experiments?
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>>> What does it mean that a property is "separated" from an object? That an
>>> object loses a property? That happens all the time.
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>>> arXiv:1312.3775v1 [quant-ph] 13 Dec 2013
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>>> Brent
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>> We know that a molecule's histories can interfere with each other:
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
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>> In 2013, the double-slit experiment was successfully performed with
>> molecules that each comprised 810 atoms (whose total mass was over 10,000
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>> mass units <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_mass_units>).
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>> Does this mean that a molecule's properties can be separated from itself?
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>> That's a non-sequitur. A double-slit experiment is not the same as a
>> Cheshire cat experiment.
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>> Brent
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> The same QM principles apply. It's just plain quantum mechanics going on
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> molecule, or which experiment is being done:
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> *Quantum Cheshire Cat effect may be explained by standard quantum
> mechanics.*
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> https://phys.org/news/2015-06-quantum-cheshire-cat-effect-standard.html
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> @philipthrift
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