Sunday, November 05, 2006

More on Bohm

From the Undivided Universe:

Even though many physicists feel that making such calculations is basically what physics is all about, it is our view that the intuitive and imaginative side which makes the whole theory intelligible, is as important in the long run as is the side of mathematical calculation". "The correspondence principle then demonstrates the consistency of the quantum theory with this presupposition...because of the need to presuppose the classical level (and perhaps eventually an observer) there is no way in the conventional interpretation to give an consistent account of quantum cosmology."

Singulation then is a many-worlds interpretation - many worlds not embedded within, but on a continuum from classical to quantum.
It's a model of a wave collapsing into a particle - starting at the singulatity and happening very, very fast initially then slowly (with cooling?) slowing down, depending on size and gravitational factors. (With longer times this approxs. our stochastic trajectories).

These ideas are connected with our ontological interpretation by means of a mode of a particle as a sequence of incoming and outgoing waves, with successive waves very close to each other.

"Do what the many worlds interpretation has not succeeded in doing adequately, i.e. - to show that the quantum theory contains a 'classical world' within it."

See Ghirardi, Rimini and Weber for non-linear non-local modifications of Schrodinger's idea; that would cause the wave function/the collapse process is significant only for large scale systems containing many particles.

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