Re: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread scerir
From: "Jesse Mazer" > Would this experimental result actually be predicted by the quantum > formalism, though? It sounds like they had a setup similar to the > double-slit experiment and found a small amount of interference even when > they measured which hole the particle traveled through, but I

RE: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Jesse Mazer
Brent Meeker wrote: I don't find any reference to Afshar or his experiment on the Harvard web site or on arXiv.org? Maybe it hasn't been written up yet, or it just wasn't submitted to arXiv.org. But the Kathryn Cramer blog entry on this had a link to a schedule of talks at a Texas A&M physics sem

Re: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Saibal Mitra
. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Jeff Bone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Verzonden: Monday, April 26, 2004 08:26 PM Onderwerp: Many Worlds invalidated? > > Hot off the press, via Boingsters: > &

Re: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Jesse Mazer
I wrote: Would this experimental result actually be predicted by the quantum  formalism, though? It sounds >like they had a setup similar to the  double-slit experiment and found a small amount of interference >even  when they measured which hole the particle traveled through, but I  thought th

RE: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Brent Meeker
I don't find any reference to Afshar or his experiment on the Harvard web site or on arXiv.org? Brent Meeker >-Original Message- >From: Jeff Bone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 6:27 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Jeff Bone
BTW, just a caveat --- and I should've caveated the initial forward. I'm not endorsing this or any interpretation of this experiment at all, rather just offering it up to the list in case others had not seen it. $0.02, jb On Apr 26, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: Hal Finney wrote: T

RE: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Ben Goertzel
His applications of these rival interpretations to the experiment have a "straw man" flavor to them. -- Ben > -Original Message- > From: Jeff Bone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Jesse Mazer
Hal Finney wrote: The MWI is just the quantum formalism minus wave function collapse and is therefore perfectly compatible with this experiment, since the experiment is itself compatible with the quantum formalism. Would this experimental result actually be predicted by the quantum formalism, tho

Re: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Hal Finney
Jeff Bone forwards: > http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/26/many_worlds_theory_i.html > > Many Worlds theory invalidated > > Kathryn Cramer breaks the story on a to-be-presented Harvard talk on an > experiment that appears to invalidate both the "Many Worlds" and > "Copenhagen" theories of

Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Jeff Bone
Hot off the press, via Boingsters: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/26/many_worlds_theory_i.html Many Worlds theory invalidated Kathryn Cramer breaks the story on a to-be-presented Harvard talk on an experiment that appears to invalidate both the "Many Worlds" and "Copenhagen" theories of q