On Friday, November 15, 2019 at 4:02:57 AM UTC-6, scerir wrote: > > > > Il 15 novembre 2019 alle 1.20 Lawrence Crowell <[email protected] > <javascript:>> ha scritto: > > On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 4:25:16 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > The problem with physics is physicists ! Yeah, that's my conclusion after > many years of studying, arguing and reading. Many, perhaps most, attribute > ontological character to what is epistemological; namely the wf. This leads > to all kinds of conceptual errors, and ridiculous models and conjectures -- > such as MW, particles being in two positions at the same time, radiioactive > sources that are simultanously decayed and undecayed, and so forth. The wf > gives us information about the state of a system and nothing more. Sorry to > disappoint. AG > > > As I see it the wave function is epistemological on Mondays, Wednesdays > and Fridays, but ontological on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. On Shabbat > it is neither. > > LC > > "Interpretations of quantum mechanics, unlike Gods, are not jealous, and > thus it is safe to believe in more than one at the same time. So if the > many-worlds interpretation makes it easier to think about the research > you’re doing in April, and the Copenhagen interpretation makes it easier to > think about the research you’re doing in June, the Copenhagen > interpretation is not going to smite you for praying to the many-worlds > interpretation. At least I hope it won’t, because otherwise I’m in big > trouble." -Peter Shor >
His (Peter Shor @PeterShor1 *Discovered Shor's algorithm for prime factorization on quantum computers*) algorithm is very clever, but it's bizarre that a quantum "interpretation" is to some either Many Worlds or "Copenhagen". @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/26839fe8-9eaa-4e7a-9971-4ce5bdbe5e32%40googlegroups.com.
