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| Jun 5 at 10:06 | comment | added | Davyz2 | Wave function collpase is a non-local phenomena, as such it can't exist as a physical process, no equation of motion in quantum mechanics is allowed to be instantaneous in time, even more so when this non-local process is observer-dependent, at which point one has to give a scientific explanation of how observers produce this non-local effect, otherwise it's just a metaphysical assumption with no basis | |
| Jun 4 at 14:12 | comment | added | gandalf61 | @Davyz2 Not quite sure what you mean. Wavefunction collapse and entanglement are two sides of the same coin - what looks like wavefunction collapse to me is described as entanglement by a third party that is not entangled with the wavefunction. | |
| Jun 4 at 14:04 | comment | added | Davyz2 | Why would observers somehow not be entangled with systems but rather produce an instantaneous collpase of the state? | |
| Jun 4 at 13:41 | history | answered | gandalf61 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |