quantum mechanics: Kastner\'s brilliant blog (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, July 20, 2013, 22:04 (3935 days ago) @ rekastner

Ruth: Re the lecture: I'm sorry you had trouble with this. It sounds like a browser glitch. -I was able to listen to the whole lecture, along with the powerpoint and follow the reasoning as to why TI removes the superposition of the poor cat, and the need for an intellect. But it still leaves me with the same question that in studying particles you can only measure what you look for. There is the same indeterminancy, the same requirement for intelligence. -And this comment from your blog explains it: "My development of the Transactional Interpretation makes use of an important idea of Werner Heisenberg: "Atoms and the elementary particles themselves ... form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than things of the facts." This world of potentialities is not contained within space and time; it is a higher-dimensional world whose structure is described by the mathematics of quantum theory. The Transactional Interpretation is best understood by considering both the offer and confirmation as Heisenbergian possibilities—that is, they are only potential events."-But the requirement for intelligence still exists but now is realized to exist at the level of choosing which potentiality to look at or for. That certainly seems to get rid of the many worlds issue, the need for an intelligence to actuate the universe, and as your blog points out spookiness at a distance is also obviated.-By the way, the iceberg example of the two layers of reality was a marvelous powerpoint slide.-
> Re the voice: Thanks for the compliment. :) I am also a singer, so if you like music, check out my daughter Janet's Maryland Palestrina Choir selection on youtube (I'm a member of the choir): http://www.youtube.com/user/MDPalestrinaChoir-The choir voices are beautiful. Unfortunately my singing is Johnny one note