On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 12:52:26 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > > On Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 5:54:31 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 10/12/2019 2:38 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> What is your "quantum interpretation" of this: >>>> >>>> These hefty molecules (oligotetraphenyl porphyrins enriched with >>>> fluoroalkyl-sulfanyl chains) are sent through a 2-slit screen and land on >>>> a >>>> collection array forming a diffraction pattern (just as photons do). How >>>> does the presence of the 2 slits make the interference pattern? What is >>>> interfering with what? >>>> >>> >>> *I don't know. **The size of the molecules is irrelevant.** I am >>> willing to leave it at that without grandeous interpretations. But since >>> you think it means all components are simultaneously realized, even if the >>> particles are measured one at the time, with large time delays, what's the >>> logic to this conclusion? AG* >>> >>> >>>> (Sabine Hosssenfelder says a particle - and she would have to say this >>>> molecule - is in two places at once. But she doesn't have a quantum >>>> interpretation. But what would *Vic Stenger* have said? >>>> >>> >> *Stenger found the MWI abhorrent. Don't recall what alternative he >> suggested, if any. AG * >> >> >> Vic, liked some form of retro-causation, like Cramer's transactional QM. >> >> Brent >> > > > > Vic wrote *all I've done is to reify Feynman paths in the path integral*. > > Something like FISH (Feynman Integral Symmetry Hypothesis [Huw Price, Ken > Wharton]). > > @philithrift >
Brent is right. Stenger was a firm believer in retrocausality. I don't understand his comment, which is probably wrong, as is retrocausality. AG -- 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/d0af03a5-5a4f-4561-9412-c94a0f75fd64%40googlegroups.com.
