On Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 6:11:41 AM UTC-7, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 12:10:26 PM UTC-7, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:01:17 AM UTC-7, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 11/17/2019 11:07 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: >>> > >>> > I forget if I raised this issue here or on another thread. I am >>> > beginning to doubt that isolation is possible. When a particle is >>> > created, how can it be isolated from the environment? If it cannot be >>> > isolated, if it's never really isolated, the decoherence model fails >>> > to establish anything. AG >>> >>> Interactions are quantized like everything else. There's smallest unit >>> of action, h. So if the interaction is less than this it's zero. So it >>> is possible to isolate variables. >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> But if, say, a particle is created by some process, won't it be entangled >> with the causal entities defining the process and therefore be initially, >> and forever, non-isolated? AG >> > > If that's too hot to handle, try this: if we write the standard > superposition of a decayed or undecayed radioactive atom, is there any > inherent problem with interpreting this superposition to mean it has a > probability to be in one state or the other by applying Born's rule to each > amplitude? Why did this interpretation apparently fall to the wayside, and > was substituted for the baffling interpretation of the system being in both > states simultaneously? AG >
It seems like a simple question aching for an answer. Why do physicists, many of them at least, prefer a baffling unintelligible interpretation of superposition, say in the case of a radioactive source, when the obvious non-contradictory one stares them in their collective faces? 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/6dcadbf4-063d-46b4-a462-b184a57c4bfb%40googlegroups.com.
