On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 1:34:35 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote:
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> On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 12:21:12 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
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>> 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.
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> https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/interview-mathematician-physicist-arnold-neumaier/
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> He seems more of a dabbler in physics to me. He is primarily a
> mathematician.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> @philipthrift
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Anyway, as anyone should be able to see as one reads further,
Arnold Neumaier
<https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/interview-mathematician-physicist-arnold-neumaier/>
<https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/interview-mathematician-physicist-arnold-neumaier/>
("good enough physicist"),
*is a crackpot!*
@philipthrift
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