Chris Adami

JvN could have said: "you amateur, I derived this over a decade ago". No, he said "it has been called that before". Today's meme would involve a duck screaming "Who called it that before??? Who???"

Even more amazing is that John von Neumann wrote down the formula for the Shannon entropy in 1937 as the classical limit of his quantum entropy, and when Shannon came to visit him to show him his "new" formula asking what to call it, he just said "call it entropy since it's been called that before"

And the Gor language has a distinctly French sound to it.

My answer to that is usually “What is wrong with you we talked about that”

Also a lesson in evolution. Beneficial mutations break a lot of other things that need fixing later, and often don’t appear to be beneficial at first. As I’m sure you’ve encountered somewhere.

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I weep for the NSF and its employees

You don't need branching for the theory to make sense, and indeed Everett added a note in print emphasizing that there is no branching. Multiworlds was DeWitt's abomination.

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It is astonishing that Penrose is still clinging to his collapse model. I pointed out to him at Caltech 15 years ago that it does not work. He kept introducing non-unitary forces into his model without acknowledging that he did that. And a collapse with unitary force absolutely leads to radiation.

You mean Rovelli's kind?

Congrats. Looks interesting.

``"irreversible" or effectively irreversible process causes the decay of quantum coherence which imparts the classical behavior of "observation" or "measurement"''. And it looks like the majority opinion is that Copenhagen indeed advocates collapse. (3/3)

by the fact that the experiment has led to a definite result, that actually a certain event has happened". I have read that Bohr did not explicitly discuss collapse, but he did talk about (2/3)

Heisenberg wrote: "It is well known that the 'reduction of the wave packets' always appears in the Copenhagen interpretation when the transition is completed from the possible to the actual. The probability function(..)is suddenly reduced to a much narrower range (1/3)

That is an interesting observation because I thought collapse was integral to the interpretation. I am happy to take another look at this (of course there are other reasons to criticize the C.I., like that it uses elements from classical physics, when classical physics does not exist).

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The quantum state does, of course, no such thing. The measurement device, on the other hand, does precisely that. But, the device and the quantum system it has measured are not the same thing, and they cannot reflect each other.

In other words: "Your measurement devices are lying to you, and they can't help it!"

Measurements give outcomes for the measurement device, not the quantum system. Important distinction. To think that device tells you about the quantum system implies that quantum states can be copied, which they can't. After measurement the q. system is still in a superposition, and will remain so.

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