On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 9:34 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 7:37 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > *> In all cases, if the which-way information is preserved, no >> interference is seen. * > > > True. > > *> But if the which-way information is quantum erased, interference is >> visible. * > > > Also true .... but then… why would you say "*I, too, would expect to see > interference bands*" if Deutsch's experiment was actually performed? > Because no which-way measurement is actually made in the Deutsch set-up. > *> How this works in the delayed choice set-up has been explained by >> Sabine Hossenfelder.* > > > I stopped reading Hossenfelder sometime ago when she started defending > Superdeterminism; yes it can explain all the weirdness in the quantum world > but it requires, quite literally, the greatest violation of Occam's razor > that is possible in order to do so. I would even go so far as to say > Superdeterminism requires an *INFINITE *violation of Occam's razor, and > that is not a word I use very often. For that reason I don't see how any > rational person could take Superdeterminism seriously. > Belief in superdeterminism, or Zoroastrianism, or whatever, does not mean that everything a person writes is nonsense. To believe so is an example of the very worst form of argumentum ad hominem (or feminem in Hossenfelder's case). Besides, Sean Carroll gives essentially the same explanation from a many-worlds perspective: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/?s=quantum+erase Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLTsR2%2BPZOgPOHjxnUgEEZ_v_eeWQ%2BoQCqoTJ5iV0voK5w%40mail.gmail.com.
