Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness

Re:Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Qua... by tsimionescu on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:40AM (#33289190)

Actually, if you eliminate collapse entirely as a non-linear operation, then you have a new huge problem for QM: there is plenty of non-linearity in the universe (e.g. double pendulum experiments, not to mention GR), and QM predicts that there shouldn't be any non-linearity at all, if you eliminate wave function collapse/the Born postulate.

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Re:Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Qua... by GoblinSlayer on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:25PM (#33292058)

Hmm... is de Broglie wave linear? Trigonometric functions don't look very linear to me.

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Re:Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Qua... by ravi-delia on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:41PM (#33295207)

Ahh, linear in the differential equations sense, not the affine function sense. Trigonometric functions are quite linear- they decompose into a basis! That's why, for instance, Fourier transforms are useful for more than signal processing.

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