tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post5720982440218778776..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: Aaronson sarcastic about quantum info in 2040Rogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-88852637312354474772014-07-26T08:32:47.946-07:002014-07-26T08:32:47.946-07:00Too much 'Anonymous' going on. At least id...Too much 'Anonymous' going on. At least identify yourself as something, take a chance that your opinion might be associated with you. If several people are going to be calling themselves 'Anonymous' then discussion is impossible.CFTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-10074855499054008252014-07-25T01:08:21.790-07:002014-07-25T01:08:21.790-07:00Roger, admit defeat...you and Motl with your copen...Roger, admit defeat...you and Motl with your copenhagen garbage are being swept aside:<br /><br />http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/quantum-mechanics.html<br /><br />The many-worlds interpretation should probably be called something more like "many histories". I like it, because it completely avoids the awful notion of the wave function collapsing, and denies any role whatsoever to measurement, consciousness, etc. And it makes the success of quantum computers remarkably sensible, which I don't think we can say for any of the other interpretations. The only exception I can think of is the Ithaca interpretation, which merges very nicely with many-worlds. This is, roughly, the idea that the wave-function is a real, objective thing, as are correlations between systems, and that "measurement" is just a particular case of decoherenceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-36248109068197485782014-07-24T09:13:35.667-07:002014-07-24T09:13:35.667-07:00http://statintquant.net/siq/siqse6.html#x103-26000...http://statintquant.net/siq/siqse6.html#x103-260006.4<br /><br />Far better than the copenhagen garbage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-16823849767801494132014-07-23T21:02:30.385-07:002014-07-23T21:02:30.385-07:00Copenhagen Garbage
1. Wave-Particle Duality
Comp...Copenhagen Garbage<br /><br />1. Wave-Particle Duality<br /><br />Complete rubbish. Wave-like behavior occurs only as a consequence of the collective behavior of a large number of elementary particles and has never been observed by looking at individual events. Nothing wave-like is discernible in the arrival of single electrons at the observation plane. It is only after the arrival of perhaps tens of thousands of electrons that a pattern interpretable as wave-like interference emerges. Therefore, individual particles are always particles and never waves<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-8544655215277922032014-07-23T20:27:48.947-07:002014-07-23T20:27:48.947-07:00Look what this quantum "bigwig" said a f...Look what this quantum "bigwig" said a few posts ago in 'Carroll goes nuts with many worlds'<br /><br />'On Quantum Theory' by Berthold-Georg Englert:<br /><br />"For that to have any<br />meaning, the existence of events must be accepted in the<br />first place. In this sense, then, the event is a preexisting<br />concept of quantum theory. We cannot formulate the theory<br />without this concept."<br /><br />Hahaha...the QM is all about this crazy notion of the 'event'? <br /><br />All applications of quantum mechanics applied to genuine single events should lead to absurd consequences. This is exactly what happens. The long list of absurdities and paradoxes resulting from the braindead Copenhagen Interpretation single-event point of view includes, as prominent members, the measurement problem, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, and cause-effect velocities exceeding that of light.<br /><br />And that Englert idiot says the event is fundamental? There was analysis of tunneling data where signal velocities up to five times the velocity of light were found Sorry numbnut Englert, but single (microscopic) events are out of our reach. Many-body systems behave (fortunately) effectively like statistical ensembles and this explains the enormous success of quantum mechanics and its relevance for the macroscopic world.<br /><br />I can't believe these idiots like Motl and Englert. They are useless text-book regurgitators and they understand nothing at all about quantum theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-6728920194491308232014-07-23T19:57:17.254-07:002014-07-23T19:57:17.254-07:00The aaronson carnival barker is nuts again. At le...The aaronson carnival barker is nuts again. At least I know what the Motl goof's motivation for endorsing the rubbish that is the Copenhagen interpretation (CI): the useless reductionist dogma of CI is required for his string theory baloney. The correct 'minimalist' interpretation of quantum theory is incompatible with the reductionistic point of view.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com