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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: No Spin in 2 Dimensions?
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- References: <ZOWIE.92Nov11230652@daedalus.stanford.edu> <1e9n4cINNq40@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> <FRANL.92Nov16233347@draco.centerline.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:19:55 GMT
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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; you recognize wavefunction collapse for the myth it is. We
- have, of course, been through this before, and not everyone agrees with
- my solution. (Just everyone who is right. :-))
-
- The real problem is that nobody has come up with a provably consistent
- theory of interacting particles in four dimensional spacetime that
- satisfies the principles of both special relativity and quantum
- mechanics. It's for this reason that I'd say "QM and SR work quite well
- together" is misleading. Again, this is something I frequently point
- out.
-