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- From: matt@physics16.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: No Spin in 2 Dimensions?
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:41:08
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov's message of 17 Nov 1992 11:29 PST
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- In article <17NOV199211293098@csa3.lbl.gov> sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- And I might add: I'm not at all sure that I really want to call
- wave-function collapse part of the mathematical structure of quantum
- mechanics; it might be better to say that it is one way of
- interpreting what the mathematics tells you.
-
- Note that there are other interpretations (e.g., the "many worlds"
- interpretation) which are equivalent mathematically, and which make
- the same experimental predictions, but which do not involve wave
- function collapse.
-
- If you're not happy with the collapse interpretation, shop around!
- Maybe you'll find an interpretation you like better. (Me, my attitude
- is that it doesn't make much difference. Anyone is welcome to try to
- persuade me otherwise, though.)
- --
- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
- (510) 644-2618 crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
- austern@lbl.bitnet faction, an army! If you don't have any
- matt@physics.berkeley.edu solutions, become a part of the problem!
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