[MD] Quantum Enigma

[MarshaV]

Maybe a pattern is like superposition, and omesurement collapses into this or that particular.  



On Sep 22, 2010, at 3:17 AM, MarshaV wrote:

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> Is the measurement, observation, overlaying a pattern?   Great book!   
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> On Sep 22, 2010, at 3:11 AM, MarshaV wrote:
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>> "We seem to be saying that somehow observing an atom being at a particular place created its being there.  Yes!  We warned you that we'd be saying something hard to believe.
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>> "We've been talking about an atom because quantum theory was developed to deal with microscopic objects.  Later we'll just talk of "objects," because in principle, quantum theory applies to everything and has been demonstrated for objects much larger than atoms.  Quantum theory has been used to address entities as large as the universe and as intimate as the mind.  At this point if you're mystified by quantum mechanics, you join experts."
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>> "We now display the archetypal quantum experiment that _demonstrates_ what we've been saying.  Or, in the words of Pascual Jordan, a developer of quantum theory, we demonstrate that "Observations not only _disturb_ what is to be measured, they _produce_ it.""
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>>>    (Rosenblum & Kuttner,'Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness', p.77,2006)       
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