Autcsrgv.329
net.misc
utzoo!utcsrgv!donald
Sun May 2 17:05:57 1982
Of quantum, uncertainty, and bishops
(Can we drop the "psi" in the titles of these articles please?)
The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is essentially
pragmatic: it merely states that the theory predicts statistical
correlations of phenomena; nothing is said about any underlying
"reality". This view was championed by Niels Bohr of Copenhagen (who
was also the prime mover behind the view of the observer being an
inseparable part of an experiment). Einstein disagreed strongly,
but was unable to argue, since quantum mechanics was and has remained
one of the most accurate and well-tested physical theories.
Schrodinger's Cat is a feline in a sealed box which has a device
which releases a poison gas if a certain random event happens, say
the decay of an atomic nucleus. After a time, we open the box.
The classical view says that the cat is either dead or not dead;
that was predetermined before we ever opened the box. The quantum
view is that before we opened the box, the cat was in limbo, and its
wave function described the *possibilities* of the cat being dead or
alive. Our opening the box causes the collapse of the wave function
into one of the possibilites, so we observe a dead cat or a live cat.
The Uncertainty Principle has nothing to do with this. The principle
merely describes the accuracy limits to which one can measure two quantities
*simultaneously*. For example, quantum theory *does* allow one to measure the
location of a particle as accurately as one desires, but the catch is that
the more accurately you measure the location, the less accurately you
can measure its momentum at that location, the relation being
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