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Quantum Speculations wrote a new post, Time and the Quantum Measurement Problem 2 weeks ago
Volume 3, Issue 1, pages 32-43
Ted Dace
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Ruth Kastner wrote a new post, Revised submission: Decoherence and the Transactional Interpretation 9 months, 3 weeks ago
In response to reviewer comments, I am posting a sightly revised version of my previously submitted paper. Editor: please note that my emails to you are not getting through at the moment, so please consider this […]
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Quantum Speculations wrote a new post, A Hydrogen Atom Model with Well-Defined Electron Trajectories 1 year ago
Volume 2, Issue 1, pages 1-26
Thomas Allmendinger
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Quantum Speculations wrote a new post, A Dialectical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 1 year ago
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Ruth Kastner wrote a new post, Decoherence in the Transactional Interpretation 1 year, 1 month ago
Abstract. This paper presents an analysis of decoherence resulting from the physically real non-unitarity, or ‘objective reduction,’ that occurs in the Transactional Interpretation (TI). Two distinct aspects of t […]
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Quantum Speculations wrote a new post, Meaning of the Wave Function and the Origin of Probability in Quantum Mechanics 1 year, 3 months ago
Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 32-45
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Quantum Speculations wrote a new post, Causally Active Metaphysical Realism 1 year, 3 months ago
Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 1-31
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Quantum Speculations wrote a new post, Is There a Physical Reality Beyond the Axioms of Quantum Mechanics? 1 year, 3 months ago
Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 85-92
Mohammed Sanduk [Show Biography]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Reply to Aurelien: No, RTI has emphatically nothing to do with Bohr or the Copenhagen interpretation, which I criticize and reject here:https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07545
If you read my publications, you will find that I assign objective physical reality to quantum states and the advanced states. You seem to be implicitly assuming that for something…[Read more] -
Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
To Shan: That is correct. The collapse occurs with respect to projection operators (outer products), not with respect to kets. That is, from absorber response to each component we get two weighted projection operators:|Psi1><Psi1| and |Psi2><Psi2|, where each is weighted by the Born Rule based on the prepared state. So if the prepared state was…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Dear Aurelien, RTI does not require any preferred foliation; it does not require any future boundary condition. It is not a hidden variable approach nor does it rely on a notion that measurement outcomes are ‘already there’ in the future–i.e. it is not a block world ontology. I understand that the original TI may have seemed to imply that, but…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Thanks Shan. In RTI the quantum state |Psi> is fully ontic. But the advanced state <Psi| is also fully ontic, so RTI is a different animal from the usual ‘quantum interpretation.’ This is why it is not subject to the dilemma you pose. It has real ontic collapse, but the collapse is not with respect to just a forward-propagating quantum state. In…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Thanks Aurelien, I am indeed aware of the Sutherland model and you are correct that it is covariant, except perhaps for the final boundary condition which has to be defined in a particular frame (but it’s a matter of debate as to whether that ‘really’ fixes a preferred frame). Other than the final B.C., the model preserves full Lorentz covariance.…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
I’m afraid this is not the correct conclusion. While RTI is certainly not the usual ad hoc collapse theory, it certainly is a non-unitary objective reduction theory (see below). So it cannot be subject to your argument concerning unitary-only theories. There is real dynamical reduction in TI–it just does not take the form that you’ve assumed…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
But the existence of the observed correlation does not compel the idea that there is some sort of collapse signal that ‘travels faster than light.’ You might be supposing that such a ‘collapse signal’ is needed to enforce the correlation, but that is not the case in TI, where the correlation is enforced through the combination of the quantum state…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Thanks Shan for this question. If the measurement events are spacelike separated, then according to relativity, there is no invariant time order for the two events. That is, it’s not possible to consider them simultaneous in any invariant sense–that would pick out a preferred frame, and relativity doesn’t allow that. For an observer heading…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Yes, I think the definition of ‘collapse’–what collapse means physically–does matter for the issue of concern to you. In this latest post you seem to be talking about a single quantum, not an entangled state, right? Bell’s inequality concerns correlations between entangled particles.
In any case, for this single-particle measurement, the…[Read more] -
Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Again, collapse in TI for any detected quantum is associated with both emission and absorption of that quantum–two events for each detected quantum, not one. This is an important difference bewteen TI and other collapse theories, which view collapse as singling out a particular time index. That is not the case in TI. In TI, collapse establishes…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Microscopic account of a measurement process in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Jonathan, I have to differ with your initial claim that “Every interpretation of quantum mechanics posits, as axioms, a set of rigid idealizations about measurement.” This not the case, since the transactional interpretation does not do so. Measurement is neither idealized nor an axiom in TI (nor in RTI, the relativistic version.) In TI,…[Read more]
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Ruth Kastner replied to the topic Quantum theory is incompatible with relativity: A proof beyond Bell's theorem in the forum
2019 International Workshop: Beyond Bell's theorem 1 year, 5 months ago
Hi Shan:
I’ve started looking at this interesting paper, but I do have to note that there is an exception to the general observation that ‘Collapse theories single out a preferred frame’. The Transactional Interpretation is a collapse theory, but it does not single out a preferred frame. This is made explicit in its relativistic development, RTI,…[Read more] - Load More