> True about Schrödinger, but there are one world formulations in which > there is no wave function collapse, or no wave function at all to begin with. > > @philipthrift >
“The idea that they [measurement outcomes] be not alternatives but all really happen simultaneously seems lunatic to him [the quantum theorist], just impossible. He thinks that if the laws of nature took this form for, let me say, a quarter of an hour, we should find our surroundings rapidly turning into a quagmire, or sort of a featureless jelly or plasma, all contours becoming blurred, we ourselves probably becoming jelly fish. It is strange that he should believe this. For I understand he grants that unobserved nature does behave this way – namely according to the wave equation. The aforesaid alternatives come into play only when we make an observation - which need, of course, not be a scientific observation. Still it would seem that, according to the quantum theorist, nature is prevented from rapid jellification only by our perceiving or observing it. [........] The compulsion to replace the simultaneous happenings, as indicated directly by the theory, by alternatives, of which the theory is supposed to indicate the respective probabilities, arises from the conviction that what we really observe are particles - that actual events always concern particles, not waves." -Erwin Schroedinger, The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Dublin Seminars (1949-1955) and Other Unpublished Essays (Ox Bow Press, Woodbridge, Connecticut, 1995), pages 19-20. -- 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/56679620.642504.1574154481471%40mail1.libero.it.
