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- From: darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Bayes' theorem and QM
- Keywords: qm
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.003415.12693@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 00:34:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.134107.24536@oracorp.com> <TED.92Dec27145845@lole.nmsu.edu> <1992Dec28.150215.203430@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
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- In <1992Dec28.150215.203430@uctvax.uct.ac.za> naturman@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
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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:
- >>
- >> 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.
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- >The attempts to explain QM in terms of chaos theory have nothing to do with
- >hidden variable theories.
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- Does this mean that work on how chaos might relate to fundamental QM has
- been done?
-
- If so, does anyone have any references or names?
-
- (None have been given so far.)
-
- Fred Rice
- darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
-