On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 4:50 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 11:41 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 8/8/2019 1:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> Do you not see that there is only one intermediate state and the >> >> superposition is an artifact of expressing the state relative to a >> >> certain basis? >> > >> > If it was an artfifact, one photon would not been able to interfere >> > with itself, and there would be no Bell’s violation. >> >> It's an artifact of expressing the photon as a superposition of two >> bases |left slit> and |right slit> which are not orthogonal. There is >> still only one state, one wave function. >> >> > Any multitude of things can also also be viewed as a single collection of > that multitude. > > A multitude of classical computational traces can be found in a quantum > computation. You point out this multitude of computation traces can be > viewed as one state of a larger space. Viewing it this way, however, > doesn't eliminate the multitude of the classical computational traces. > But viewing it in terms of "multiple classical computational traces" does not prove that there are multiple parallel worlds. You can change the basis vectors, or the clustering properties of the components, to any extent that you like. That does not change the fact that there is only one overall state, in one world, and no parallel worlds anywhere. Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLS-iNa52oJAnVOFQOi9ghb%2BhWR0FovM01ekzdTq4031Ug%40mail.gmail.com.
