Timeline for Could the measurement problem be solved by string theory / other ToE?
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| Jan 31, 2011 at 16:20 | comment | added | Vladimir Kalitvianski | Dear downvoters, tell me where I am wrong, please. I would like to learn. | |
| Jan 30, 2011 at 23:09 | comment | added | Vladimir Kalitvianski | Peter, I explain basics on classical mechanical example which is directly generalized later on to quantum mechanics. QM has already the necessary stochastic (wavy) behavior. | |
| Jan 30, 2011 at 22:59 | comment | added | Peter Morgan | Vladimir, "large and soft" isn't enough. In the arXiv paper you cite it seems that you're working in a classical deterministic framework (although you use "time averages"). I suggest you need to introduce some degree of stochastic structure. Have you looked at the Stochastic ElectroDynamics literature (often abbreviated to SED)? I think there are good reasons why this is not mainstream, but you might find it helpful to consider their reasons for doing what they do. | |
| Jan 30, 2011 at 16:16 | comment | added | Vladimir Kalitvianski | Yes, Roy, it is that. Even a "simple" electron is in permanent coupling to the quantized electromagnetic field with infinite number of degrees of freedom so it is nor really point-like but quantum mechanically smeared, "large and soft" as I sometimes say. See arxiv.org/abs/0811.4416. | |
| Jan 30, 2011 at 15:35 | comment | added | Roy Simpson | Vladimir, A simple counterargument that some would use is to say that the objects need to be modelled by N degrees of freedom, not just the 3 position related ones. One could then average those for simplicity, but fundamentally there are N. Perhaps you are also saying that N is a high order of infinity, but I dont wont to presume your theory... | |
| Jan 30, 2011 at 10:41 | comment | added | Vladimir Kalitvianski | OK, in order to have certain information experimentally, you have to get multiple measurements, you have to process many bits of information. They all are different but you attribute their average to one object. At this stage you make simplification and create a stable but artificial notion of, say, point-like body. In fact this body has more than 3 degrees of freedom and always changes so your description is rather poor. Apart from R a body has a color, size, shape, etc,, i.e. additional information that cannot be covered by three coordinates R (t). | |
| Jan 29, 2011 at 16:13 | comment | added | Qurious | Honestly confused, please elaborate. | |
| Jan 29, 2011 at 13:09 | history | edited | Vladimir Kalitvianski | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 29, 2011 at 10:52 | history | answered | Vladimir Kalitvianski | CC BY-SA 2.5 |