On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:01:17 AM UTC-7, Brent wrote: > > > > On 11/17/2019 11:07 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > I forget if I raised this issue here or on another thread. I am > > beginning to doubt that isolation is possible. When a particle is > > created, how can it be isolated from the environment? If it cannot be > > isolated, if it's never really isolated, the decoherence model fails > > to establish anything. AG > > Interactions are quantized like everything else. There's smallest unit > of action, h. So if the interaction is less than this it's zero. So it > is possible to isolate variables. > > Brent >
But if, say, a particle is created by some process, won't it be entangled with the causal entities defining the process and therefore be initially, and forever, non-isolated? 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/39d7f460-967e-4510-a269-cc2b01f14b85%40googlegroups.com.
