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October 15, 2012
Published by Bryan at October 15, 2012
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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle does more than restrict what we can measure, it also result in us missing properties that are actually present.
October 11, 2012
Published by Bryan at October 11, 2012
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This complementary nature of states with non-commuting operators, (σX, σY ,σZ), is the basis for the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (CI). It states, basically, that if the Z states exist then the X do not, and vice versa. I would rather conclude that it is impossible to determine experimentally if spin has more than one axis of quantization.
July 3, 2012
Published by Bryan at July 3, 2012
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This example nicely shows several things about quantum mechanics. First quantum mechanics is a statistical theory of measurement. You only get the SG results after many spins have been filtered. Second, Heisenberg’s uncertainty relations tell us that you cannot devise an experiment that will measure both the Z and X polarization simultaneously. You can do it for one, but not the other, and vice versa.
November 28, 2011
Published by Bryan at November 28, 2011
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At that time, it was customary for a week’s symposium to have an outing. Although it was mid-August, Bob, an avid skier, had planned a trip to Whistler mountain where the participants would take the gondola up to the Round House and spend a couple of hours in the clean mountain air and enjoy the surrounding scene of mountains and glaciers. However the day before the outing, by chance I called Whistler and found that gondola was closed for maintenance and at that time it was the only way up.
October 17, 2011
Published by Bryan at October 17, 2011
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In that pile of glass plates I found in the Kamerlingh Onnes laboratory in 1974, was the original glass negative of the 1927 Solvay Conference. I had never seen the picture before and it was an exciting moment as I looked at my find, and started to recognize individuals.
July 2, 2011
Published by Bryan at July 2, 2011
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An unfiltered particle is called “Pristine” as defined in the website called Bell’s theorem refuted. The values of the LHV of a pristine particle are unknown. A pristine EPR pair is one before filtering.
....I will present a model that shows a disentangled product state not only gives the quantum result, but predicts something new.
June 29, 2011
Published by Bryan at June 29, 2011
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In answering the Crackpot Randi Challenge, I following Crackpot rules to obtain results which agree with the experimental data of Gregor Weihs and Alain Aspect, without entanglement.
June 27, 2011
Published by Bryan at June 27, 2011
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The phrase “quantum weirdness” is recognized as meaningless and has no place in science.
June 22, 2011
Published by Bryan at June 22, 2011
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Their challenge is—“Anybody with some crackpot “local QM” theory is cordially invited to either write the program so that Bell’s inequality is violated or to shut the hell up!"
May 30, 2011
Published by Bryan at May 30, 2011
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As I looked over the Bay of Bengal, I saw what I initially thought was the sun setting. It was large and gold and full, half hidden by the sea’s horizon. I was struck for a few seconds by its beauty and felt a surge of good energy flow through me. I suddenly realized that it was not the setting sun, but the full moon rising.
May 26, 2011
Published by Bryan at May 26, 2011
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“We were not under a lot of pressure. We did not work weekends nor late at night and took our coffee breaks.”
None-the-less, they were successful in seeing the first absorption of energy between the two levels of the spin of ½ magnitude which are split in the presence of a magnetic field—the Zeeman Effect.
May 23, 2011
Published by Bryan at May 23, 2011
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Well maybe I am being stubborn and accept that non-locality is a property of Nature. However it is the most worrying aspect of quantum mechanics, an otherwise fantastically successful theory of the microscopic. It has got to the point that since no answer has yet been found, the vast majority of physicists (I believe grudgingly) accept the statistical nature of the microscopic and believe indeed that God does play dice.