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Article #7555Aspect inverted - a much more frightening idea?
From: J. A. "Biep" Durieux
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1987 10:48
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1987 10:48
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First of all: *Please* cross-post (and finally move) philosophical articles to sci.philosophy.tech, as people in sci.physics get bored with them, and S.P.T is especially designed for (among others) these discussions. What about not collapsing a wave-function, but making it uncollapsable? Suppose I could split a moron into two half-wits in such a way that both half-wits had the same (say) impuls. Now I could measure the impuls of one of them with any degree of accuracy I might want. But, as the two half-wits have the same impulse, by doing so I would know the impulse of the other hals-wit to the same degree of accuracy. Now, what would happen if I tried to measure its location? The first photograph of a non-collapsed wave-function? To avoid flames: for "same impuls" read "opposite impuls", and for impuls/location read your pet duo of incommensurables. -- Biep. (biep@cs.vu.nl via mcvax) "Law" is the name given to a collection of rules describing how to act with people that do not follow the law.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!botter!klipper!biep From: biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Aspect inverted - a much more frightening idea? Message-ID: <774@klipper.cs.vu.nl> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 06:48:58 EDT Article-I.D.: klipper.774 Posted: Mon Jun 1 06:48:58 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 06:19:51 EDT References: <422@telesoft.UUCP> <1205@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <7400@boring.cwi.nl> <5925@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 19