Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-21 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
Russell Standish wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:48:35PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: If quantum mechanics was done using a real-valued Hilbert space, you simply don't get wavelike interference patterns. To my knowledge, you don't get interference patterns for *positive* real-valued

Re: dark energy

2008-01-21 Thread John Mikes
Hi, Hal: ... I used motivator in the sense that a gas engine is a motivator of dynamics Indeed? does a gas engine 'work' without dynamics - what is supposed to be motivated by its activity? This question came in as an initiator to my reply, since 'dynamics' is bound to a process in time

Re: Quantum Interference and the Plentitude

2008-01-21 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:31:20PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote: Hi Russel, you are right, a *positive* real Hilbert space is a wrong term. However, the point of my comment was to express a belief that your sentence If quantum mechanics was done using a real-valued Hilbert space, you