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Re:Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of... by whatshisface on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:16PM (#19701223)
To further build on what you're saying, by bringing in the concept of a measure-er we have already entered the domain of philosophy, because the special class "measure-er" belongs to the Copenhagen interpretation and the interpretation of quantum mechanics is a philosophical issue by virtue of the fact that it will never be decided experimentally.
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Re:Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of... by mjfl on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:27PM (#19701300)
Philosophical issues mean that the theory is wrong and new physics will come from their resolution, and thus philosophical issues can be decided experimentally.
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Re:Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of... by whatshisface on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:41PM (#19701427)
We may be using different definitions of the word philosophical. I'm classifying anything that can be decided experimentally as scientific. These interpretations are identical from an experimental standpoint.
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Re:Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:51PM (#19701499)
That's a circular argument. It doesn't prove that experimental differences between interpretations are impossible.

The existence of such a proof would provide a genuine scientific basis for not continuing to address the problem.

Without that proof, the problem remains open.

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Re:Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of... by whatshisface on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:03PM (#19701602)
It will surprise you to hear, just as it suprised me, that MWI and Copenhagen have been axiomatically identical from day one. I know what you are thinking, something like, "if the problem was closed we wouldn't be talking about it, so it must be open." Yeah, well...

There is a list of axioms of quantum mechanics, Copenhagen and MWI disagree only on how you get to them. (And also on their conceptual interpretation). That's why they're called interpretations of quantum mechanics, not theories of quantum mechanics.

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