From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 00:35:08 BST
David M,
> On QM, I don't think that is the solution.
I'm not sure what "that" is that you are referring to. I only said that QM
shows that the mathematics of limits does not solve Zeno's paradoxes, but I
didn't say what does. (Actually, I misspoke. Some of them are resolved, in
that Zeno assumed that a sum of an infinite number of numbers couldn't be
finite. But it can, QM or no).
> Take Young's double slit experiment.
> I take this as showing that between being fired
> and hitting the wall on the other side of the slits,
> an electron experiences all its possible routes
> to the wall, these real possibilities interfere with
> each other and causes the interference pattern to
> apply to what we usually think of as a single elctron but
> I suggest we think of it as a given range of possibilities
> as real but only one becoming actual. DQ is a many and
> an SQ event is a one. This is Prigogine's view I believe.
I don't see what you are getting at here. Isn't "a given range of
possibilities" what a probability wave means? So what you are saying is the
standard interpretation of the wave function, plus a rejection of the
many-worlds view, since you say only one becomes actual.
In any case, I think referring to DQ as the uncollapsed state vector is
wrong. Since, though uncollapsed, there is nevertheless structure, the
uncollapsed state vector is unobserved SQ, not DQ. DQ might be considered
the observation that collapses it,
though.
- Scott
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