Post by thread:[OT:] Copenhagen trembles

part 1 2299 bytes content-type:text/plain; (decoded 7bit) The validity of classical Quantum Mechanics interpretations have been brought into question by the recently performed "Afshar test". The observed results are not as predicted by Copenhagen or many-worlds theories. BUT the result is as predicted by a nearly 20 year old "Tranactional Interpretaion" theory which also does not require much of the mumbo jumbo of other versions (no observers needed for collapse of wave function, no need for an essentially infinite number of parallel universes, don't have to own a cat :-)... ). Understand it now before he gets his Nobel Prize :-) - (or before somebody points out what's wrong with Afshar's experimental method :-( ). http://mist.npl.washington.edu/TI/ At this rate we'll be going FTL by Christmas :-) RM ____________________________________ ABSTRACT The interpretational problems of quantum mechanics are considered. The way in which the standard Copenhagen Interpretation (CI) of quantum mechanics deals with these problems is reviewed. A new interpretation of the formalism of quantum mechanics, the Transactional Interpretation (TI), is presented. The basic element of TI is the transaction describing a quantum event as an exchange of advanced and retarded waves, as implied by the work of Wheeler and Feynman, Dirac, and others. The TI is explicitly nonlocal and thereby consistent with recent tests of the Bell Inequality, yet is relativistically invariant and fully causal. A detailed comparison of the TI and CI is made in the context of well known quantum mechanical gedanken experiments and "paradoxes". The TI permits quantum mechanical wave functions to be interpreted as real waves physically present in space rather than as "mathematical representations of knowledge" as in the CI. The TI is shown to provide insight into the complex character of the quantum mechanical state vector and the mechanism associated with its "collapse". The TI also leads in a natural way to justification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the Born probability law [P=*], basic elements of the CI. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. part 2 148 bytes content-type:image/gif; (decode)