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- From: naturman@uctvax.uct.ac.za
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Bayes' theorem and QM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.150215.203430@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 15:02:15 +0200
- References: <1992Dec18.134107.24536@oracorp.com> <TED.92Dec27145845@lole.nmsu.edu>
- Keywords: qm
- Organization: University of Cape Town
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- In article <TED.92Dec27145845@lole.nmsu.edu>, ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec26.080126.12238@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) writes:
- >
- > >It seems likely
- > >to me that some form of deterministic chaos also underlys the seemingly
- > >fundamental nature of probability in quantum mechanics.
- >
- > Interesting... I have had the same thought of this possibility too. Does
- > anyone know if any work on how chaos and fundamental QM might relate has
- > been done? If so, can anyone give any helpful references or names?
- >
- >
- > this is called the hidden variable interpretation of quantum
- > mechanics.
- >
- >
-
- Wrong. Without going into too much details, hidden variable interpretations are
- interpretations which require QM probabilities to be recoverable by integration
- over a space of "hidden variables". The hidden variables model possible
- unknown physical quantities whose specified values uniquely determine all
- the values of all physical quantities. Hidden variables interpretations were
- born out of an attempt to show that QM worked like the kinetic theory of gases.
- However, one cannot have a hidden variables interpretation without violating
- locality.
-
- The attempts to explain QM in terms of chaos theory have nothing to do with
- hidden variable theories.
-