Comments on: Starry Fate

By: Neil Dickson

Neil Dickson — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:31:55 +0000

TL;DR of my comment above: Wavefunctions are definitely non-local, but their dynamics aren’t, according to the equations describing them. They just seem non-local from a semi-classical interpretation.

By: Neil Dickson

Neil Dickson — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:32:17 +0000

It may sound stranger, but a much simpler (in the Occam’s Razor sense) interpretation that still maintains the observed violations of Bell’s inequalities is that, because “observation” is just entangling the observers with the state of the system being observed, the reality that is experienced by the observers gets “decided” when the results are compared, as opposed to when the “measurements” occur. Since the comparison afterward is done via regular communication channels (and stray photons), it doesn’t depend on superluminal communication or non-local interactions. Then, the behaviour is still describable in terms of unitary operations and the local (but still non-classical) equations that directly describe quantum dynamics, e.g. the Schrödinger equation. The Copenhagen way of describing it in terms of probabilities just introduces more problems due to its dependence on non-unitary “measurement” operations creating apparent non-local effects, despite there not being dynamics equations that fundamentally describe those effects.

By: Brian Koberlein

Brian Koberlein — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:05:57 +0000

Yep. I’ve corrected it now.

By: Elver S.S.

Elver S.S. — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 13:57:06 +0000

Dr. Koberlein, should this say “… its right-handed”?

…he immediately knows our dear sister will be receiving its left-handed mate.