> On 13 Oct 2019, at 21:19, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 10/13/2019 6:48 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 9 Oct 2019, at 12:52, Alan Grayson <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 12:28:38 AM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 10/8/2019 9:20 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: >>> > I've argued this before, but it's worth stating again. It's a >>> > misintepretation of superposition to claim that a system described by >>> > it, is in all the component states simultaneously. As is easily seen >>> > in ordinary vector space, an arbitrary vector has an uncountable >>> > number of different representations. Thus, to claim it is in some >>> > specific set of component states simultaneously, makes no sense. Thus >>> > evaporates a key "mystery" of quantum theory, inclusive of S's cat and >>> > Everett's many worlds. AG >>> >>> No. It changes the problem to the question of why there are preferred >>> bases. >>> >>> Brent >>> >>> Who chose Alive and Dead, or Awake and Sleeping for the S. cat? Wasn't it >>> the observer? Since they had other choices, my claim stands. AG >> >> Everett showed explicitly that the relative states, and their relative >> statistics does not depend on the choice of the bases. >> Something quite similar occur already in arithmetic, with a much general >> notion of "base”. > > But he didn't explain why observations were only possible in some bases.
Which is something that I doubt about. Maybe this is just false. Only Zurel makes me think that the position base is more important … for us (the human), but other bases might play a similar role. For me this is an open problem. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/f5684d48-db8c-cb3a-bb6a-db015d41363d%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/f5684d48-db8c-cb3a-bb6a-db015d41363d%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/4529293C-D0FE-4E39-9648-D6E9CFF67E6C%40ulb.ac.be.
