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I'm a little baffled when articles come out claiming some weird relativity-breaking quantum effect and fail to mention that the no-collapse interpretation of qu
by TheEzEzz 13y ago
I'm a little baffled when articles come out claiming some weird relativity-breaking quantum effect and fail to mention that the no-collapse interpretation of quantum mechanics explains the effect easily without breaking relativity.
- hiker 13y agoWhat's the easy no-collapse interpretation explanation?
- jaibot 13y agoI'm guessing Ez is referring to the Many Worlds Interpretation.
- oofabz 13y agoThere are a few, the most realistic is the Bohm interpretation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory The basic idea is that observed decoherence is not caused by wave collapse, but is caused by interaction with noise. For example, consider the double-slit experiment. If you allow light to pass through two slits, it forms an interference pattern. If you put a detector in one of the slits, the pattern collapses. The Copenhagen interpretation says this is because the observation collapses the waveform of the photon. The Bohm interpretation says that the photon interacted with your detector and its phase was knocked out of sync.