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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Are there plans to perform a quantum eraser type experiment?
- Keywords: quantum,measurement
- Message-ID: <mcirvin.725862896@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 04:34:56 GMT
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- markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden) writes:
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- >(and that mystery question is ...)
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- >"Why do people who are so interested in this subject fail to obtain even
- > an elementary understanding of a major alternative like MWI before
- > rejecting it out-of-hand?"
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- The answer to the mystery question is: Because the popular literature is
- so unequivocal in its presentation of wrong descriptions of the
- interpretation. I've seen one lucidly miswritten account, in Paul Davies'
- book _Other Worlds_, that actually trots out the Flatland analogy to
- describe the extra spatial dimensions in which the "other universes"
- are supposed to reside. Our universe is described as being embedded in
- a superspace with an infinite number of spatial dimensions, presumably a
- garbled reference to Hilbert space. I'd forgive someone who read such
- a thing and assumed that the Everett interpretation involved some kind
- of bizarre cosmological rending in twain in place of collapse, even in
- the absence of further research.
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- Matt McIrvin I read Usenet just for the tab damage!
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