On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 5:17 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
*>> Me: Does your preferred quantum interpretation, whatever it is, do any >> better in that regard? If several quantum interpretations produce identical >> observable results then Occam's Razor says that the preferred one would be >> the one that makes the fewest assumptions. And that would be Many Worlds. I >> remind you that all those many many worlds are NOT an assumption, instead >> they are a CONSEQUENCE of simply assuming that Schrodinger's equation means >> what it says, and the equation says NOTHING about a wave function >> collapsing.* >> > > *> Schrodinger's equation says nothing at all about the wave function. For > example, if it is not real but only epistemic, then there is no need for a > physical collapse.* > *If something works, and in this case works really really well, then it is not at all clear to me why you should assume that the thing that works so well is not real. And in that context I'm not even sure what you mean by "real". * *> The Schrodinger equation does not say that the wave function is a > physically real object* > *True, and a Newtonian equation for the movement of a billiard ball does not say that the billiard ball is a real physical object either, therefore I would conclude that the quantum wave function is as real or unreal as a billiard ball. * *> **the the wave function can be seen as merely a device for calculating > the evolution of probabilities* > *OK, but since it has been working so well, why do you assume you should stop using it to calculate things after a "measurement" (whatever that ill defined word is supposed to mean) is made? * * J**ohn K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* rmw > -- 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/CAJPayv3Tn_9A4Pn6aKxoqkF_X9AN8WgMM5ysMQp5phZ_0z%2B_Jw%40mail.gmail.com.
