Elon, I beg you. We have worked so hard to get rid of the quantum woo peddling `only when you look' nonsense for so long. In a single tweet you have ruined ithttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1205230908837523456 …
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I thought copenhagen was the one which talks about oberve and then it collapses stuff. if not then i don't know what anyone is talking about anymore. any way.
You're confusing two things. The fact that when an external system interacts with a quantum system it influences the outcome. This is an experimental result and interpretation independent.
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Any pointer on non (or not too much) technical references about how the wave function collapse happens ? There are a lot of articles about decoherence but AFAIU it doesn’t explain the « sampling » irreversible part of the « observation »
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I think all non-technical books will leave at "wave function collapses". There is no explanation on how. I doubt even if there is a technical explanation. Hence the term copenhagen "interpretation". You can read
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Hence why his anecdote isn't valid since in a video game when you look somewhere it doesn't influence the outcome? Influence of the outcome is a necessary condition for it to be a quantum system?
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Ignoring the "aka qm" part of
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The issue here is that a quantum object is influenced by the measurement,but a macroscopic system wouldn't be affected so much because it's not a quantum object.
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