[<<][math][>>][..]Sun Feb 24 23:53:24 CET 2013
An interesting talk[1] about interpretation of QM. Slides here[6]. Merits some investigation, some strong claims made here :) Seems that most of it comes from [7] and [12]. "We" are not made of atoms, we are made of (classical) bits. "Correlations without correlata" -- David Mermin[2]. That last phrase is in [11] and in a 1998 publication by Mermin[12]. Then he goes a bit on a roll: The cassical world is not real. We are just information. We are our thoughts. We are a simulation running on a quantum computer. Some quotes skipped in the presentation: ... the particle-like behavior of quantum systems is an illusion created by the incomplete observation of a quantum (entangled) system with a macroscopic number of degrees of freedom. ... randomness is not an essential cornerstone of quantum measurement but rather an illusion created by it -- Nicholas Cerf and Chris Adami I could trace the first quote down to Cerf and Adami paper[7]. I did not find many things that cite it, so not sure if this is a fringe thing... One is here[8]. Quotes skipped in the presentation: ... the particle-like behavior of quantum systems is an illusion created by the incomplete observation of a quantum (entangled) system with a macroscopic number of degrees of freedom. ... randomness is not an essential cornerstone of quantum measurement but rather an illusion created by it -- Nicholas Cerf and Chris Adami He also mentions Mermin's book[3]: Boojums All the Way through. Some Arxiv papers[4] on QI. Some of these mention QBism[5]. I could trace the first quote down to Cerf and Adami paper[7]. I did not find many things that cite it, so not sure if this is a fringe thing... One is here[8]. That paper is not in Cerf's publication list (through [9]) but it is probably similar to a bunch from that period that are, like [10] (paywalled). [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mermin [3] http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item1139045/?site_locale=en_GB [4] http://arxiv.org/find/quant-ph/1/au:+Mermin_N/0/1/0/all/0/1 [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism [6] http://www.slideshare.net/UnitB166ER/the-quantum-conspiracy-what-popularizers-of-quantum-mechanics-dont-want-you-to-know-by-ron-garret [7] http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605002 [8] http://www.sfu.ca/~pbastani/cmpt881.pdf [9] http://quic.ulb.ac.be/members/ncer [10] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=300811 [11] http://chaos.swarthmore.edu/courses/phys134/papers/mohr1.pdf [12] http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801057
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