On Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 12:38:11 AM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote:
On Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 11:58:33 PM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 10:26:03 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: On 11/19/2024 4:10 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 4:25:27 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: See section 4.2, and beyond, of https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0510095 which is a very good explanation of why there are no such operators. Brent What primarily interests me is whether S's superpostion of |alive> and |dead> can be applied to QM if there's no operator with those eigenvalues. AG Which is exactly what the reference I cited addresses. Brent TY. I'll study it carefully. AG It looks like a real heavy lift. Not sure I am up to it, but I'll try. AG At start of 2nd paragraph of section 4.2, it says "In our scheme quantum states are just assignments of probabilities to possible events, that is, possible measurement outcomes." But superpositions are characterized by the system being represented, being in all states of the superposition simultaneously before measurement. From this, in the case of S's cat. we get a cat Alive and Dead simultaneously before the box is opened. But, by virtue of quote, isn't the author defining away the problem to be solved for S's cat? TY, 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/70bf4d45-70ec-450d-97ed-840966420824n%40googlegroups.com.
