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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/39d7f460-967e-4510-a269-cc2b01f14b85%40googlegroups.com.
