Philip Thrift <[email protected]> wrote: *>Have you suddenly become a fan of hidden variables models? In that case, > I am totally on your side.*
If you're a fan of hidden variables then, to be consistent with experimental results, you must also be a fan of non-locality, or non-reality, or superdeterminism. *> QM (or the Schrodinger Equation, SE) is incomplete because it does not > solve the measurement problem, * Many Worlds solves the measurement problem because, unlike every other interpretation, it precisely defines what a measurement is, it's just a change, any sort of change. So what you really have is not a measurement problem but a many worlds problem, and it's only a problem for emotional reasons not scientific reasons, some people are just repelled by the idea that there is more than one version of themselves around; but the universe is not required to be in harmony with individual human desires. *> so there must be a new nonlinear SE, * And all those proposed wheels within wheels added to the Schrodinger Equation and the massive load of additional mathematical complexity that entails does not improve the modified equation's ability to predict experimental results one iota, it gets rid of many worlds and does absolutely nothing else. It reminds me of a fundamentalist preacher's theory that the world was made in 4004 BC and God put dinosaur bones in the ground at that time that look much older but are not, and God can do that because God can do anything. Making quantum calculations is difficult enough as it is, we should be looking for ways to make it easier not harder. And by the way, all those modifications of the Schrodinger Equation involve sticking in random factors, Many Worlds has no need of such random factors, it's contend with the simpler deterministic Schrodinger Equation just as it is now. John K Clark -- 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/CAJPayv3wd_eTGe%3DM7q30f-UdggB%2Bt5gDZPZdzpLYd9-rQCc0sw%40mail.gmail.com.
