On Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 5:06:53 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *> Naive question; how do those silver atoms know they're in Hiibert space, and not 3-space.? AG* *As Brent says, they're in both. Over many years mathematicians have invented thousands of different mathematical objects, a physicist's job is to figure out, with the help of experiments, which physical traits should be symbolized by which mathematical objects. If you want to make the best prediction possible about what an electron (or a neutral silver atom) is going to do in real 3-D space you're going to need complex 2-D Hilbert space. * *> LOL.* *No, I simply do not believe you are laughing out loud over Brent's comment. * My LOL refers to the fact that Brent allows the SG silver atoms to "reside" in Hilbert and 3d space, whereas BK denies both, and yet they're both correct in some sense. AG *> But Clark denies the SG silver atoms are 3D* *And no, Clark does NOT deny "the SG silver atoms are 3D".* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* jxq -- 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/800f4b3a-17ea-4fcb-989d-42de91c1c51an%40googlegroups.com.
