Re: Superposition Misinterpreted

['Brent Meeker' via Everything List]

On 10/27/2019 2:24 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:

On Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 2:52:01 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote:



    On 10/26/2019 11:43 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:

    Here's what I understand about an electron in the double slit
    experiment. It doesn't occupy two locations simultaneously as a
    particle. Rather, when *not* observed it behaves like a wave,
    goes through both slits, and interferes with itself. When

observed, it behaves as a particle.

    There's your problem.  You're insisting that the electron is
    changing around because it "behaves" differently.  The behavior is
    in your interpretation.  It's not in the mathematics.  So the fact
    that it seems to jump around in ontology is the fault of your
    interpretation trying to impose a medieval idea of substance.

And your interpretation is that the mathematics says the electron has two positions or paths simultaneously, and goes through both slits?

The wf goes thru both slits.

Where does the mathematics assert that unintelligible claim? Waves can go through both slits, but not particles.

In your classical world view.

Brent

And here I thought you'd appreciate my interpretation. AG

    Now please explain the form of the wf in S cat experiment,
    applying decoherence before and after it completes, while the box
    is closed. TIA, AG

    There's in no "before and after it completes".  The process of
    transition from undecayed to decayed is continuous, at least
    that's the MWI picture.  When you open the box (or even earlier)
    your brain becomes correlated, via decoherence, with one or the
    other of the branches of the wf.

    Brent

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