1 Jul
2014
1 Jul
'14
3:19 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Adam P. Goucher <apgoucher@gmx.com> wrote:
Isn't `wavefunction collapse' just a lazy shorthand for `the system we're interested in interacts with the observer, who is so huge and complex that decoherence occurs and thus the observer never sees the superposition'?
That's not how it was originally proposed, and not how some physicists like Penrose believe it happens. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_collapse_theory . -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com