On Monday, November 4, 2024 at 1:31:52 PM UTC-7 John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 2:55 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *>> Maxwell's Equations are compatible with Special and General Relativity but NOT with Quantum Mechanics. As soon as the electron was discovered in 1897 everybody knew that Maxwell's equations would need to be modified, but it took about 30 years before anybody knew exactly how. But there is no experimental result that suggests Schrodinger's equation needs to be modified. * *> Except for the fact that it violates Relativity! AG * *I'm not sure exactly what you're driving at, I'm not even sure what "it" is. * *"It" refers to Schrodinger's equation, which is known to describe NON-RELATIVISTIC QM, so how can you claim there's no need for it to be modified? Moreover, QM is inherently NON-LOCAL since the wf solutions extend to plus and minus infinity, even solutions to the relativistic equation of Dirac. AG * *>>> if MW is non-realistic, how can it also be local,* *>>Because Many Worlds is perfectly compatible with it being impossible to send signals faster than light. * *>But if signals can't be sent between the worlds of MW, there's no way to test whether or not it is local. AG * *Sending signals between worlds has nothing to do with it, I'm talking about signals sent to different parts of the same world. And the existence of many worlds is not an assumption of the theory, it is simply a consequence (not an assumption) of taking Schrodinger's equation seriously. The only assumption the theory makes is that Schrodinger's equation means what it says. And it does not need signals that travel faster than light, it can get along just fine without them. * *But it needs its wf solutions that extend to plus and minus infinity, so QM is inherently non-local regardless of whether light has a finite velocity. 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/2521e579-04ae-4d0b-9cae-54a815b2fadcn%40googlegroups.com.
