Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-12 Thread smitra
On 12-05-2016 08:14, Bruce Kellett wrote: The proof of non-locality, even in a many worlds model, is immediate. Since the sequence under consideration comes from a series of quantum events it must violate the Bell inequalities. And Bell has shown that these inequalities must hold for any local

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-12 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 11/05/2016 11:37 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 May 2016, at 02:10, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bell's original argument didn't mention collapse, and the argument that his theorem fails because he assumed definite outcomes from measurements is actually without substance: no such assumption is

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2016-05-11 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
Following the above reasoning MWI (if it is a truly deterministic theory) should violate the locality condition. I doubt this, but if you find a proof, in the literature (or not), I am interested. As I explained, and also give references, it seems to me that the MWI restores both 3p

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2016-05-11 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
Bruce: I came across the following brief statement by Goldstein et al: Many-worlds and relational interpretations of quantum theory [etc.] # Adrian Kent writes: "Making scientific sense of Everett’s idea is difficult, as evidenced by the many and generally incompatible attempts to show

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 May 2016, at 02:10, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 10/05/2016 2:22 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 May 2016, at 15:46, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/05/2016 10:45 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 May 2016, at 04:12, Bruce Kellett wrote: This is the case for the discussion in section 9.1.2 of

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2016-05-11 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 11/05/2016 2:31 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 May 2016, at 15:37, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: Following the above reasoning MWI (if it is a truly deterministic theory) should violate the locality condition. I doubt this, but if you find a proof, in the literature (or not), I

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2016-05-10 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 11/05/2016 2:31 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: The question is: are the probabilities, or the indeterminacies, and the non locality, phenomenological (1p) or factual (ontological, real, 3p)? QM+collapse admit factual indeterminacies (God plays dice, and there are action at a distance,

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2016-05-10 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
. I think we all agree that QM-with-collapse entails a violation of Locality. The debate was for the case of the non-single value QM, that is QM-without-collapse, where all branches of the wave are kept "alive". Bruno As somebody wrote "Algebraic nonseparability entails geometric nonlocality;

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2016-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 May 2016, at 19:06, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: Messaggio originale Da: Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> Data: 10/05/2016 18.31 A: <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Ogg: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature) On 10 May 2016, at 15:37,

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2016-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 May 2016, at 18:36, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: scerir wrote: If A and B are two wings of a typical Bell apparatus, i the observable to be measured in A and x its possible value, j is the observable to be measured in B and y its possible value, and if Lambda are hidden

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2016-05-10 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
Messaggio originale Da: Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> Data: 10/05/2016 18.31 A: <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Ogg: Re: R: Re: R: Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature) On 10 May 2016, at 15:37, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: Thanks Scerir, b

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2016-05-10 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
scerir wrote: If A and B are two wings of a typical Bell apparatus, i the observable to be measured in A and x its possible value, j is the observable to be measured in B and y its possible value, and if Lambda are hidden variables, we could write Locality Condition p_A,Lambda (x|i,j) =

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2016-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 May 2016, at 15:37, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: Thanks Scerir, but yet again, this paper get the same conclusion as mine (and most people here). With the MWI, non-locality does not imply action-at-a distance. (d'Espagnat would call it non- separability). What I look for

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2016-05-10 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
Thanks Scerir, but yet again, this paper get the same conclusion as mine (and most people here). With the MWI, non-locality does not imply action-at-a distance. (d'Espagnat would call it non-separability). What I look for would be a paper which would show that in the MWI there are

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2016-05-10 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 10/05/2016 10:31 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 10 May 2016, at 09:00, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: Bruno (I suppose) wrote: But in the MWI, some work needs to be done (at least) to convince me. I don't even find a paper on the subject, only paper which shows that MWI

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2016-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 May 2016, at 09:00, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: Bruno (I suppose) wrote: But in the MWI, some work needs to be done (at least) to convince me. I don't even find a paper on the subject, only paper which shows that MWI is local (some more rigorous than other). Do you have a

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2016-05-10 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
### W. Myrvold wrote something here http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11654/ (see ch. 0.8) It seems that he is saying that 'action-at-a-distance' is something that would violate the 'no-signalling theorem'

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2016-05-10 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 10/05/2016 5:00 pm, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: Bruno (I suppose) wrote: But in the MWI, some work needs to be done (at least) to convince me. I don't even find a paper on the subject, only paper which shows that MWI is local (some more rigorous than other). Do you

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2016-05-10 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
Bruno (I suppose) wrote: But in the MWI, some work needs to be done (at least) to convince me. I don't even find a paper on the subject, only paper which shows that MWI is local (some more rigorous than other). Do you have a reference of a paper showing that Bell's

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-09 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 10/05/2016 2:22 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 May 2016, at 15:46, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/05/2016 10:45 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 May 2016, at 04:12, Bruce Kellett wrote: This is the case for the discussion in section 9.1.2 of the paper by Brown and Timpson. Their equation (9)

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 May 2016, at 15:46, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/05/2016 10:45 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 May 2016, at 04:12, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/05/2016 1:39 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: Thanks Scerir. Very interesting. On 08 May 2016, at 09:58, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote:

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-09 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 9/05/2016 10:45 pm, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 09 May 2016, at 04:12, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/05/2016 1:39 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: Thanks Scerir. Very interesting. On 08 May 2016, at 09:58, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03521 'Bell on Bell's theorem:

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 May 2016, at 04:12, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 9/05/2016 1:39 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: Thanks Scerir. Very interesting. On 08 May 2016, at 09:58, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03521 'Bell on Bell's theorem: The changing face of nonlocality' Authors:

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-08 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 9/05/2016 1:39 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: Thanks Scerir. Very interesting. On 08 May 2016, at 09:58, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03521 'Bell on Bell's theorem: The changing face of nonlocality' Authors: Harvey R. Brown, Christopher G. Timpson there are

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Thanks Scerir. Very interesting. On 08 May 2016, at 09:58, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03521 'Bell on Bell's theorem: The changing face of nonlocality' Authors: Harvey R. Brown, Christopher G. Timpson there are several interesting points here ch. 9 -

Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-05-08 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.03521 'Bell on Bell's theorem: The changing face of nonlocality' Authors: Harvey R. Brown, Christopher G. Timpson there are several interesting points here ch. 9 - Locality in the Everett picture ch. 9.1 EPR and Bell correlations in the Everettian setting etc. etc.

Re: Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-04-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Apr 2016, at 13:10, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: BTW, surprisingly the debate about the real meaning of (the two) Bell’s theorems (locality, local causality, predetermination, predictability, separability, determinism, counterfactual definiteness, realism, etc.) is still

Non-locality and MWI (literature)

2016-04-19 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
BTW, surprisingly the debate about the real meaning of (the two) Bell’s theorems (locality, local causality, predetermination, predictability, separability, determinism, counterfactual definiteness, realism, etc.) is still going on ... Here is some (very short) literature J.S. Bell’s