Re:Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
by goodcanadian on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @04:50PM
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You say that observation shows many worlds. I say that the photon interferes with itself. I find the latter far more plausible than invoking multiple universes for the photon to interact with.
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Re:Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
by VladKovac on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:04PM
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That's fine until you start talking about a magical collapse process that happens conveniently at sufficiently large scale. IMO postulating additional non-local, non-unitary, ftl, etc. collapse process is strictly more complicated.
Re:Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
by millstone on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @05:40PM
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Most modern interpretations have "collapse" as only a change in the description level, not a physical process.
You're right that postulates such as the projection postulate complicate the theory. But it's not clear how to explain experimental results, like the stochastic nature of measurements or the Born rule, without it. I can make a theory as simple as you like if you don't require it to explain experimental results.
Re:Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
by VladKovac on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @12:48AM
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Don't forget that the Copenhagen people also haven't really answered the Born problem, they just lump it into the black box of "collapse".
Re:Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
by btilly on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @06:09PM
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The many-worlds interpretation has no collapse at all. :-)
Re:Pilot-Wave Theory Gains Experimental Support
by DavidPlumpton on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @02:26AM
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In QM random outcomes occur. By what mechanism are the random values chosen? Many Worlds has a plausible mechanism for this. I'm unaware of any other interpretation claiming the same.