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That's just not what traditional QM says. Traditional QM separates quantum systems (microscopic) from measurements devices (macroscopic). A measurement occurs w
by millstone 6y ago
That's just not what traditional QM says. Traditional QM separates quantum systems (microscopic) from measurements devices (macroscopic). A measurement occurs when the measurement device interacts with the quantum system. You do QM by predicting the results of these measurements. Consciousness does not enter into it.
- BadThink6655321 6y agoUntil you get information from the measurement, it didn’t happen.
- rbanffy 6y agoCan it be considered as until it causally affects something else (the observer), its state is not defined? Isn't it a causal relation that collapses the superposition?
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoSo why doesn't a measurement and/or decoherence occur when double slits or a half-silvered mirror interact with a passing particle? Are they not macroscopic objects which interact with the quantum information? Perhaps it's only a "measurement" if the (alleged) particle has nowhere else to go after the interaction. But how does the (alleged) particle know which macroscopic interactions are terminal and should be counted as "measurements" and which are part of the rest of the experiment? There is no answer to this in QM. You can calculate the probabilities and you will get predictable answers, but there are still >20 interpretations of what is really happening, and they all disagree with each other in important ways.