Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 12/11/2017 5:39 pm, Brent Meeker wrote: On 11/11/2017 9:56 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 12/11/2017 4:04 pm, Brent Meeker wrote: On 11/11/2017 6:47 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 12/11/2017 4:34 am, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: ​ ​ >>

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread Brent Meeker
On 11/11/2017 9:56 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 12/11/2017 4:04 pm, Brent Meeker wrote: On 11/11/2017 6:47 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 12/11/2017 4:34 am, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: ​ ​ >> ​ That's not the measurement probl

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 9:37:28 PM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 3:31 PM, > > wrote: > > ​> ​ >> Why not just assume the wf collapses by an as-yet unknown process? >> > > ​You can do that if you want, but Bell proved that if his inequality is > violated, and we

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 12/11/2017 4:04 pm, Brent Meeker wrote: On 11/11/2017 6:47 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 12/11/2017 4:34 am, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: ​ ​ >> ​ That's not the measurement problem, its determining if how and why obse

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread Brent Meeker
On 11/11/2017 6:47 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: On 12/11/2017 4:34 am, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: ​ ​ >> ​ That's not the measurement problem, its determining if how and why observation effects things. ​ ​ > ​

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 3:31 PM, wrote: ​> ​ > Why not just assume the wf collapses by an as-yet unknown process? > ​You can do that if you want, but Bell proved that if his inequality is violated, and we now know from experiment that it is, and if that unknown process is deterministic then the

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread Bruce Kellett
On 12/11/2017 4:34 am, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: ​ ​ >> ​ That's not the measurement problem, its determining if how and why observation effects things. ​ ​ > ​ Not to split hairs, but why we get what we get

Re: flat vs asymptotically flat universe

2017-11-11 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 12:40:45 PM UTC-7, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 11 Nov 2017, at 07:59, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 11:32:13 PM UTC-7, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 11:22:45 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread agrayson2000
On Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 10:34:13 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Alan Grayson > wrote: > > ​ >>> ​>> ​ >>> That's not the measurement problem, its determining if how and why >>> observation effects things. ​ >>> >> >> ​> ​ >> Not to split hairs, but wh

Re: flat vs asymptotically flat universe

2017-11-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Nov 2017, at 07:59, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 11:32:13 PM UTC-7, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 11:22:45 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: On 11/10/2017 10:01 PM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 2:

Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM

2017-11-11 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: ​ >> ​>> ​ >> That's not the measurement problem, its determining if how and why >> observation effects things. ​ >> > > ​> ​ > Not to split hairs, but why we get what we get in quantum measurements, > and how measurement outcomes come to be wh

Re: flat vs asymptotically flat universe

2017-11-11 Thread agrayson2000
On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 11:59:15 PM UTC-7, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 11:32:13 PM UTC-7, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Friday, November 10, 2017 at 11:22:45 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 11/10/2017 10:01 PM, agrays...@gma