Maybe a pattern is like superposition, and omesurement collapses into this or that particular.
On Sep 22, 2010, at 3:17 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > > > Is the measurement, observation, overlaying a pattern? Great book! > > > > On Sep 22, 2010, at 3:11 AM, MarshaV wrote: > >> >> >> "We seem to be saying that somehow observing an atom being at a particular >> place created its being there. Yes! We warned you that we'd be saying >> something hard to believe. >> ... >> >> "We've been talking about an atom because quantum theory was developed to >> deal with microscopic objects. Later we'll just talk of "objects," because >> in principle, quantum theory applies to everything and has been demonstrated >> for objects much larger than atoms. Quantum theory has been used to address >> entities as large as the universe and as intimate as the mind. At this >> point if you're mystified by quantum mechanics, you join experts." >> >> "We now display the archetypal quantum experiment that _demonstrates_ what >> we've been saying. Or, in the words of Pascual Jordan, a developer of >> quantum theory, we demonstrate that "Observations not only _disturb_ what is >> to be measured, they _produce_ it."" >> >> >>> (Rosenblum & Kuttner,'Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness', >>> p.77,2006) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > > > ___ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
