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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: A proof that quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:32:11 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- References: <31DEC199211004292@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1ig6pcINN32r@chnews.intel.com> <472@mtnmath.UUCP>
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- In article <472@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
- >In article <1ig6pcINN32r@chnews.intel.com>, bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
- >> But then, so is classical mechanics.
- >
- >Surely you jest?
-
- Most of the time, but not just now.
-
- >My result
- >makes it clear that quantum mechanics does not fully describe the
- >experimental results that fit in that range.
-
- If it had, 60 years ago, we'd have been wasting 60 years
- making improvements to it.
-
- >There are time delays related to the structure of the wave
- >function itself that quantum mechanics does not predict.
-
- >The ultimate significance lies in the powerful argument it provides against
- >the assumption that the wave function changes instantaneously when an
- >observation is made.
-
- It's not an assumption. It's a feature.
-
- It reacts to the observation. Is this not to be expected?
-
- >This assumption is too vague to predict some results
- >that can be measured experimentally and thus is probably not simply
- >vague but absolutely false. If this is the case then there is an entirely
- >new class of experimental phenomena that is accessible through tests
- >of Bell's inequality.
-
- Then tests of Bell's inequlity should be conducted to determine
- whether these experimental phenomena are accessible, thus proving
- whether this assumption is false.
-
- >There is a space-time structure to the nonlinear
- >changes in the wave function that occur when an observation is made.
- >Understanding this structure could ultimately be as important as
- >quantum mechanics itself.
-
- What do you suppose is the form of this structure?
-
- --Blair
- "And don't call me Surely."
-