Difficult, for me, to imagine how a measurement is performed in Alpha Centauri (according to MWI)
> Il 14/05/2025 13:09 CEST John Clark <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > > On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected] > mailto:[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] > mailto:[email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2%2BswgwZKpN5Hgo6Yy8w8dMo2YY664vuNFcyQYcdJhnUw%40mail.gmail.com > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2%2BswgwZKpN5Hgo6Yy8w8dMo2YY664vuNFcyQYcdJhnUw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer. > -- 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/1884995040.3084051.1747222028213%40mail1.libero.it.
