tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post8698587611498689065..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: There is no quantum worldRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-77329918503430850192021-12-25T13:22:16.834-08:002021-12-25T13:22:16.834-08:00CFT, Excellent! There are those who must be remind...CFT, Excellent! There are those who must be reminded that a map of something is not the thing itself, and even our best descriptions of things quantum, regardless of language used, are but maps.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15986193204167352111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-3410675243533241912017-04-26T19:39:48.725-07:002017-04-26T19:39:48.725-07:00Roger,
You can describe the rolled outcome of a si...Roger,<br />You can describe the rolled outcome of a six sided die probabilistically, and still have absolutely no clue of what a six sided die actually is, how it functions mechanically, or even how it generates its 'probabilities'. This is exactly what quantum mechanics is doing. <br />.<br />In reality, there is no such thing as a probability without someone to calculate it, as that is all a probability is. A calculation. Nothing more, nothing less. A calculation is not a cause of anything, it can carry no forces, it can provide no existence for anything any more than any second hand calculation can independent of the party that calculates it. The question quantum mechanics has failed miserably to answer is what in the hell is actually generating the probabilities...the basis for the calculations. <br />.<br />The whole nonsense of quantum computers is completely predicated on the belief that quantum mechanics is actually how reality works, rather than how it is nothing but a math of probability being used to describe reality with very limited information of its actual structure. <br />If you measure mass with the metric system, your units are in metric.<br />If you speak French and answer questions, most likely your answer will be in French.<br />If you describe reality with probabilities, with little to no real understanding of what is going on, your answer will be in probabilities. <br />All that this can tell you with certainty is: your answer is always going to be in the format/language you used to ask the question. This doesn't actually mean the truth IS the language/format you asked the question with.CFTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-21720978837691394282017-04-17T12:11:41.497-07:002017-04-17T12:11:41.497-07:00The Bohr "quote" about "no quantum ...The Bohr "quote" about "no quantum world" actually came from Aage Peterson, who recalled that Bohr said that to him in private conversation. So it is a second-hand quote, and we don't know how accurate it is. In Bohr's direct quotes, he was actually very careful to avoid making any definite assertions about whether there is an objective reality underlying our (or his) observations. He invariably made ontologically neutral statements, such as "The formalism is to be regarded as a tool for deriving predictions, of definite or statistical character...". His philosophy of complementarity is unclear on whether there is some external objective reality underlying the observations. We do know, however, that Bohr did not espouse solipsism, i.e., he was not a pure positivist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com