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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: No Spin in 2 Dimensions?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:29 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <FRANL.92Nov16233347@draco.centerline.com>, franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes...
- >hoconnel@iti.org (Heath O'Connell) writes:
- >
- >> zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes:
- >>
- >> > but then QM doesn't work too well with SR anyway
- >>
- >> QM and SR work quite well together.
- >
- >Then how do you reconcile wavefunction collapse with the relativity of
- >simultaneity?
-
- You don't necessarily need to. The point here is that QFT, the only
- consistent merger of QM and SR, provides a correct description of all
- known experimental results both in the quantum and v -> c limits.
- Besides, as has been previous discussed here, you can look at wave function
- collapse in any frame you want. It will only be simultaneous in one frame,
- but in the others the collapse will cause no unphysical (read acausal)
- behavior.
-
- So, it seems to me that it comes down to whether or not you are
- happy with accepting the interpretation of QM in terms of wave-fuction
- collapse. If you are, then everything is OK. If not, then with or without
- SR you will not be happy with QM.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
-