P.S. I happened across this entire book on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02738 You would have thought that a book on the ontology of the wavefunct...
No objection to that, but using the same terminology to describe the response of an electron to a photon, say, is much like saying everything is a hor...
I think you're doing okay without me, dude :D It's a good question. We certainly don't measure something as having a complex value, which could be a c...
That would be unnecessary according to the OP. It is sufficient that each particle knows where it is going. The statistical emergence of thermodynamic...
This is covered in the video. Local features may occur an infinite number of times. This is not what periodicity is, however. For something to be peri...
A problem completely avoided by not using terminology regarding psychological phenomena to describe non-psychological phenomena. Put it this way: a ho...
Quantum field theory is the most foundational theory we have, underpinning everything we know about except gravity. It might be that QFT can be genera...
Thank you for saying so :) In the simple symmetric Minkowski spacetime, yes, it is trivial, and I think that's fdrake's point too. If the idea isn't c...
Thanks jgill! Math is much harder, I think. My department didn't offer a general relativity course when I was an undergraduate, so I had to sit in on ...
The OP is not deriving QM, merely summarising it. Conversation would be pretty limited in scope if you have to re-derive from first principles everyth...
Visuals are not my strong suit, but I'm really trying :rofl: This is an oversimplified example of how, beyond the perfect symmetry of SR, retarded and...
You can still calculate invariant quantities for photons even if you cannot construct a rest frame for them. The proper time is an example. Literally ...
No, it's a good question. The first part of the answer is that they are both independently solutions to the relativistic wave equation. This is differ...
I propose a rejection of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Ideas about the nature of radiation that are different to quantum mechani...
The notion of duration and distance is meaningless for a photon, yes. While you can't choose a reference frame with a velocity of c, you can see that ...
As stated previously, the OP is regarding QM, and nothing outside that framework. Feel free to start a thread on the subject you'd obviously prefer to...
This is also treated in the OP. As I said, this is uncontroversial, and the purpose of the OP is not to compare QM with idiosyncratic theories. In QM,...
Ha! Ah, I see the misunderstanding. I meant it as a chronological voyage of discovery. We conclude the beam is a wave from the interference pattern. W...
I can see that you're keen to do so, but that is not a logical argument. The particular issue in question only occurs in one interpretation of QM, the...
That might well introduce some peculiar kind of meaning to the believing mind, although it's not in any sense shown here. But what you're talking abou...
I'm afraid not. If there are no other electrons to interfere with, and the electron does not interfere with itself, there is no possibility of interfe...
I welcome identification of any deficiencies. However, the concepts in question are those of non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics, in w...
MWI is much more severe than Copenhagen in this respect. Entanglement of superposed terms always leads to branching in the former but does not necessa...
To expand on Cat's response, some orbitals have 'nodes' where the probability of finding the electron in that orbital is zero. However, the volume the...
Here's an idea... If you're going to go over-the-top on fake tan, do the backs of your hands as well. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a7b2b860b4ad6ab13...
Looks like the only way to keep going in pro-fascism America is to hire your own fascists. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/11/man-shot-de...
Okay, I get it, I dig it, and I almost agree with it. This obviously isn't the case for the Higgs. For instance, the electron interacts with the Higgs...
Okay... So all elementary behaviours are then creation and annihilation events that, in the frame of reference of the thing being created and annihila...
This is what I mean by your seeming wilful misunderstanding. I did not say the choices were Copenhagen or MWI. I chose my words carefully, you simply ...
Yes, obviously with the 'in principle' caveat: there are potentially possible modes of experience that we will, through localism, dumb luck, or techno...
Well, it's a cosmological model. The whole field is a little sketchy. But on the other hand it might be true, and the possibility must be accounted fo...
Doesn't this then reduce to good intentions? What we're really describing here is expectations. Part of making a moral choice is an expectation of an ...
Not at all. It is possible that determinism holds at a statistical level. As I've said a few times, if we ever devise a test to discern whether QM is ...
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