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WAVE FUNCTION COLLAPSE. “Huge efforts have been made to escape from the collapse, with no generally accepted result. If we accept the STH arguments above (+) the inextricability of the U- and R-processes, quantum mechanics is both symmetric in time and accommodates the special status of the present.” (STH = Symmetrical Time Hypothesis). https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

SYMMETRY AND WAVE COLLAPSE. “The philosopher Michael Lockwood spoke for the consensus when he stated that in his view the single greatest argument against the reality of the collapse of the wave function is that: "Up to, but not including, the point at which the concept of collapse is dragged in to the picture, quantum mechanics is a time-symmetric theory".” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

THE FRAGILE NOW. “We can experimentally preserve present moment systems in sufficient isolation to keep them in at least partial superpositions of states, but only with great care and on a small scale.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS are a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. In this state matter and antimatter constantly create and annihilate new matter. These fluctuations are tiny random variations in the values of the several fields surrounding elementary particles. https://lnkd.in/dq9zhq3D View in LinkedIn

CIRCUS MASTER. “I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.” (Albert Einstein). https://lnkd.in/dSyZ8e3f View in LinkedIn

ISOLATION IS ARTIFICIAL. “Besides, we will see below that we can then avoid having to swallow Schrodinger's cat. In the view of this essay, the philosophical difficulty with the U- and R-processes lies in the fact that we have to make calculations for isolated systems, but there are no large isolated systems in reality, only one enormous universal wave function in continuous process of collapse.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

LITTLE CONCESSION. “If we can conceptually swallow an elephant of that size, surely accepting the U- and R-processes as inextricable parts of each other is the mere equivalent of horse-swallowing, and the Feynman-Stueckelberg vision is perhaps dog-sized? “ https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

COEXISTING CONTRADICTIONS. “In order to even begin, however, in quantum theory, we have to accept that particles are waves and vice-versa, despite a wave potentially permeating all space and a particle occupying a tiny fixed point.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

THE NUT. “A great deal of difficulty has arisen due to the apparent incompatibility of the deterministic U-process and the probabilistic R-process.” https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn

CREATION. “In the STH picture we live in the same moment of creation today. Creation is not unusual, it happens all the time, literally.” (STH = Symmetrical Time Hypothesis). https://lnkd.in/gDaxUYAS View in LinkedIn