On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*>> you are assuming that only the electron must obey Schrodinger's >> Equation, not the lab equipment needed to measure the electron, and most >> importantly not the experimentalist who is looking at the measuring device; >> they still follow classical physics. That clumsy poorly defined assumption >> was just tacked on by the Copenhagen people because they were frightened by >> the logical consequence of not doing so. That's why Many Worlds is barebone >> no-nonsense Quantum Mechanics that contains everything that is necessary >> and not one bit more. As Richard Feynman said “nature isn't classical, >> dammit".* > > *> I made no such assumption. You're just making up objections. Are you > asserting that a measurement does not leave a system in an eigenstate of > the variable measured?* > *You are not the only Brent Meeker doing that exact same measurement! If Many Worlds is correct then there are an astronomical number (or an infinite number) of yous in a world where the observable variable A has just been measured. In one of them experimental results tell "you" there is a 100% probability that "you" are in the world where the value of variable A is X is exactly equal to 1. But there are many many more Brent Meekers in which their experimentation tells them that there is a 100% probability that variable A has a very different value than X. And all those Brent Meekers believe in Quantum Mechanics just as strongly as "you" do. * *> This has nothing to do with being observed or by whom* *It most certainly does IF the question asked is "what will an experimenter observe?" And that was the fundamental question Brent Meeker asked. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 3gv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2%2BswgwZKpN5Hgo6Yy8w8dMo2YY664vuNFcyQYcdJhnUw%40mail.gmail.com.
