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- From: marki@netcom.com (Mark N. Iverson)
- Subject: Recent article on QM in AJP
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.081559.11949@netcom.com>
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- Keywords: QM, correspondence principle, Arnol'd cat
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:15:59 GMT
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- Well, just feel like stirring the orthodox pot a bit..... ;-)
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- Thought the following article might be of interest to the net/physics
- crowd... I only copied the abstract, and any typos are mine...
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- Enjoy!
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- "Does quantum mechanics obey the correspondence principle?
- Is it complete?"
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- Joseph Ford and Giorgio Mantica
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- Am. J. Phys. 60 (12), December 1992
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- This elementary review paper presents the compelling evidence which
- supports the notion that quantum mechanics is much too simple a theory
- to adequately describe a complex world. Rigorous arguments based on
- algorithmic complexity theory are used to show that both the quantum
- Arnol'd cat and a broad category of finite, bounded, undriven, quantum
- systems do not obey the correspondence principle, implying that quantum
- mechanics is also not complete. An experiment, well within current
- laboratory capability, is proposed which can expose the inability
- of quantum mechanics to adequately describe macroscopic chaos. In its
- final section, this paper describes a theoretical framework that
- provides a proper setting for interpreting these surprising results.
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- I do believe I feel the "winds of change" a blowin'...
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- Happy Holidays to all....
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- Sincerely,
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- --Mark--
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- --
- Mark N. Iverson
- marki@netcom.com / We dance round in a ring and suppose,
- (scientists)--> | but The Secret sits in the middle,
- Disclaimer: mine, and only mine. \ and knows. -- R. Frost
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