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What's the easy no-collapse interpretation explanation?
by hiker 13y ago
What'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.