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Together with "There are no particles, only fields" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4616 https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4616) at the top of my web reading list.
by musgravepeter 10y ago
Together with "There are no particles, only fields" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4616 https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4616) at the top of my web reading list.
- fao_ 10y agoAha! Thank you for this, I had forgotten that it existed! Some further discussion is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12377393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12377393
- wyager 10y agoWhile I agree with that paper, I was unsatisfied with it. He simply hand waved away the measurement problem, which is the single largest conceptual issue with the idea that everything is waves. To be fair, he explicitly says that he will not address the measurement problem, but I think if it weren't for the measurement problem there wouldn't be any issue believing that everything is made of waves. In particular, position eigenvector collapse is what causes the appearance that things are made of localized particles, but we don't actually know how it works. We have all sorts of interpretations, none of them confirmed, and many of them nonsensical. Plug for my favorite hypothetical mechanism, Einselection. It's so boring and straightforward-ish that I think it has a good chance of being the right idea.