On 5/30/2019 2:18 PM, Tomas Pales wrote:
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 BrentSo, 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?
Although it is not so spread out that the spin is not separated. But, yes, that's why the interpretation is controversial.
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