On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 10:44:14 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 12/13/2017 2:20 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 9:15:36 PM UTC, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 12/13/2017 2:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> * BUT for a nucleus of a radioactive element, the nucleus is never >> Decayed and Undecayed SIMULTANEOUSLY.* >> >> Sure it is. It's in a coherent superposition of those states until it >> interacts with the environment. >> >> Brent >> > > * That's the conventional QM wisdom and the cause of the paradox of a cat > Alive and Dead simultaneously. As I explained, the fallacy is rooted in an > unjustified generalization of the double slit experiment where the > probability waves do, in fact, exist simultaneously. What waves do you > claim are interacting for the radioactive nucleus to produce coherence? > Tell me about them. I am from Missouri. AG* > > > You seem to think that coherence requires two different waves. This is > the wrong way to look at it. In Young's slits experiment there is only one > wave, which goes through both slits and interferes with itself. >
*That's exactly how I see it! Interference requires two waves which interact with each other. This is exactly what we see in Young's slits experiments. AG * > And unstable nucleus has a probability amplitude that includes a "decayed" > part and a "not decayed" part. It's a tunneling problem. > *I don't doubt the existence of amplitudes. What I do doubt. and in fact deny, is interference between two waves that don't exist simultaneously. If there's no interference, then the cat cannot be Alive and Dead simultaneously. Tunneling can exist, but still, no simultaneous interacting, interfering waves. Is there any advantage to believing in two waves which don't exist simultaneous, can interfere with each other? AG* > > Brent > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
