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I remember a Physics PhD who thought that 'waveform collapse' was not a transition from 'waveform' to measurement. Instead, he felt that 'measurement' was just
by rocqua 5y ago
I remember a Physics PhD who thought that 'waveform collapse' was not a transition from 'waveform' to measurement. Instead, he felt that 'measurement' was just becoming entangled with the wider world, which causes the waveform to converge to a dirac-delta distribution.
Are there reasons to assume that 'random' entanglements cause the waveform to 'concentrate'? it would need to be that the probability of concentration at a given 'point' is proportional to the square magnitude of the waveform? Has this been studied?
- ajkjk 5y agoThat is the correct model of what wavefunction collapse is. And yes, there are huge amounts of research in how the effects of random entanglements -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence is the general concept.
- rocqua 5y agoVery cool, thanks!