In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:27:42 -0500: Hi, The entire purpose of measurement is to refine one's knowledge of a system. Why is it then surprising that the wave function of a measured system provides more explicit information than the wave function of an unmeasured system?
[snip] >Hi, > >The article on pilot waves is interesting. De Broglie's and Bohm's thesis >suggests that there are possibly viable alternatives to the Copenhagen >interpretation. The Copenhagen school seem to have turned an >epistemological problem into an ontological one (that is to say, they >turned a problem about what our measurement instruments can tell us about >reality into a problem about reality itself). If it is true that pilot >waves imply an underlying reality that is a superfluid, I do not think this >implication helped it in its assessment in the early part of the last >century, since people were very wary of anything that seemed like "ether" >back then. > >Regarding Geneste's paper, his general approach seems unsound. He is >trying to infer something basic about reality from a few x-ray exposures. >Far better than coming up with a very general theory of everything (or of >LENR) is finding a small set of observations and explaining them well. A >good place to start would be to see if more of those "strange radiation" >x-ray film exposures can be reproduced. One potential explanation for them >is that there is a combination of some kind of "background illumination" >coming from the powder source combined with something in the film itself >that has a helical shape. > >Eric > > > >On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Mats Lewan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Im trying to figure what connections there might be between the model >> presented by Airbus Chief Scientist Jean-François Geneste: >> >> http://www.e-catworld.com/2015/10/17/lenr-from-experiment-to-theory-paper-by-jean-francois-geneste-airbus-group/ >> >> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_tFmz65k8BUGc3Um92SF9xSUozbGM5ZDFIWXpRLUViMmZB/view >> >> >> and the the Pilot Wave theory, originally by Louis de Broglie but recently >> getting new experimental support, possibly offering a bridge between the >> probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics and a more old-school >> deterministic model the latest developments described here: >> http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality/ >> >> >> Mats >> www.animpossibleinvention.com >> >> >> >> Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
