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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we even know what "collapse" is. Maybe a better way to say it is that arguments about what is collapse are at the ro
by throwawaymaths 3y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we even know what "collapse" is. Maybe a better way to say it is that arguments about what is collapse are at the root of distinguishing interpretations
- nyssos 3y agoCollapse is when you go from a generic quantum state to an eigenstate of a given measurement operator. The disagreement is about whether this is an objective feature of reality, an artifact of semiclassical approximation, or not a real physical process at all.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoYeah of course we know what the math is and it corresponds to observation, I just mean we don't know deeply what it is beyond what we've operationally defined it as.