On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 12:21:12 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: > > > Maybe Neumaier is a good enough physicist not to let his theological > beliefs influence his physics. Don Page is another such whose name springs > to mind. Neumaier's rejection of the reality of virtual particles and > quantum foam is soundly based on his good physics. >
https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/interview-mathematician-physicist-arnold-neumaier/ He seems more of a dabbler in physics to me. He is primarily a mathematician. The problems that these additional elements in the traditional interpretations are supposed to solve are sidestepped in the thermal approach by realizing basic but previously overlooked facts: The first is that we never ever measure directly something microscopic. Instead we deduce the microscopic information indirectly from macroscopic measurements together with some theory relating it to the microscopic system of interest. The second fact is that a macroscopic observation is simply the deterministic reading of an ensemble expectation value, and not (as postulated in the conventional interpretations) an intrinsically random event governed by Born’s probabilistic rule. Both facts together eliminate the validity of all no-go theorems for a realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics. The thermal interpretation takes into account the approximate nature of quantum objects. But is not yet sufficiently well developed to give convincing answers to the unsolved questions mentioned above. The latter would require explicit QFT models of the measurement situation that can be solved in the customary approximations (including suitable coarse graining and a thermodynamic limit). Their solution should lead to the conventional quantum theory including Born’s rule where it applies. @philipthrift -- 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/955c396e-009e-466e-9f81-7795bc29268a%40googlegroups.com.
