On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 5:57:33 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:30 PM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 5:25:25 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 8:38 PM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 6:56:31 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Except every measurement ever made in every experiment ever run. >>>>> >>>> >>>> *But if every interaction with the environment in decoherence satisfies >>>> unitary time evolution, how can the result deny unitary time evolution? AG >>>> * >>>> >>> >>> Every measurement ever made gave only one result. This means that >>> unitarity is violated in giving that single result rather than a >>> superposition. Understanding the reason for this might require some more >>> work. >>> >>> Bruce >>> >> >> *If you've done that work and are convinced that unitary time evolution >> is violated when a measurement occurs, is this tantamount to claiming that >> the wf collapses? AG * >> > > I don't claim to have done the work to show how this happens. But collapse > is one possibility. > > Bruce >
*You infer that unitary time evolution would be maintained in a measurement if we got all possible results. This seem hugely implausible since it would mean a single source particle would result in many hits on the screen, possibly countable or uncountable. AG * -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b915ddaa-e9ba-4ef2-9ad7-8eaff957d204%40googlegroups.com.
