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slight misunderstanding

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From: bp6
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:44
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dear Brian
I think you're missing the point somewhere. I can' quite determine where;
you've either got a bad case of tourettes syndrome and feel the need to
spout fourth a wonderful stream of meaningless rhetoric; or you didn't read
my post.

The uncertainty relation in QM is a fundamental, and unavoidable, property
of traditional quantum mechanics.  It can be mathematically proven, although
it's physical interpretation has been debated for almost 70 years. By
looking at the actual derivation of the principle via the Robertson
indeterminacy principle, a strong argument for the "statistical reading" may
be formed. Many new formulations of quantum mechanics have been put forward
to try and avoid his theory but none have provided such an accurate
description of quantum mchanical phenomena.

For further reading I'd suggest Messiah: "Quantum mechanics" (ironically the
Bible of QM & its formalism), also IM Rae "Quantum mechanics" - the last
chapter may be useful to you. For a full discussion of the uncertanty
principle, and the somewhat limited idea of "trajectories" in quantum
physics (which clearly are meaningless outwith the rounds of the De
Brogle-Bohm casual interpretation) I'd suggest "the structure and
interpretaion of quantum mechanics" by Hughes.

Hope that this solves solves your difficulties and helps you with your
studies.

Bob
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