He also generalized that the quantum wavefunction is not algorithmic. From Wordnik.com. [Damn Duck] Reference
To understand the term "wavefunction", please look at this Mandelbrot Set. From Wordnik.com. [Cleaning Up The Mess] Reference
How do you bias the wavefunction without collapsing it?. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum interrogation] Reference
"Clearly, it would require a delocalized wavefunction.". From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
With Penrose, everything is part of one giant wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
Born's rule, calculable on the basis of a system's wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [Causal Determinism] Reference
What about wavefunction collapse or world-splitting (or whatever)?. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Time in Scientific American] Reference
Matter isn't solid, It is an artifact of the universal wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference
Regarding the collapse of the wavefunction I take no responsibility!. From Wordnik.com. [Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?] Reference
I posit that everything is patterns in the 4D spacetime wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [Behe vs. Dress] Reference
˜A local model of explicit wavefunction collapse™, quant-ph/9605047. From Wordnik.com. [Collapse Theories] Reference
"I posit that everything is patterns in the 4D spacetime wavefunction.". From Wordnik.com. [Behe vs. Dress] Reference
This occurs because every measurement causes the wavefunction to collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: Quantum Enigma] Reference
Electromagnetism is a simple consequence of the U (1) symmetry of any wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [Higgs 101] Reference
Every time you look at an unstable particle, you collapse its wavefunction for a bit. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Orch OR suggests our consciousness is interconnected with this universal wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference
To me all "matter" is just patterns in the 4D spacetime wavefunction that is our universe. From Wordnik.com. [Behe vs. Dress] Reference
In particular, imagine that we can rotate that wavefunction, without actually observing it. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum interrogation] Reference
That is, there is no unique physical meaning to past and future as regards the wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference
Setting aside the tricky business of wavefunction collapse, you have something like a computer. From Wordnik.com. [Is the Universe a Computer?] Reference
Why does the addition of particle detectors in the two-slit experiment cause the collapse of the wavefunction?. From Wordnik.com. [I would like to know.] Reference
Penrose proposes that the Objective Reduction (OR) of quantum wavefunction (s) is non-deterministic yet non-random. From Wordnik.com. [A quasi-religious movement] Reference
But part is “conceptual” — ordinary QM takes a spacetime background as given, not as part of the wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [arxiv Find: Universal Quantum Mechanics] Reference
But as long as the postulates assume collapse of the wavefunction, Born rule etc, then it is just an effective theory. From Wordnik.com. [Church-going] Reference
Either way, the puppy has observed the food, and collapsed the wavefunction into either purely (salad) or purely (steak). From Wordnik.com. [Quantum interrogation] Reference
You are also assuming mathematics, in the form of a wavefunction, isn't objective reality independent of conscious thought. From Wordnik.com. [Barney Teaches a "Scientific Fact"] Reference
Dynamic evolution is generally through a unitary operator, but with doubly stochastic transitions if wavefunction collapse occurs. From Wordnik.com. [Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy] Reference
But even this thought needs to be modified because "particles" are just an illusionary artifact of a Copenhagen-like wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice from the Middle Ground] Reference
And neutrons are subatomic particles, so we can imagine observing not just their classical position, but their quantum wavefunction!. From Wordnik.com. [Follow the Bouncing Neutron] Reference
There is only one wavefunction, and it evolves smoothly and deterministically over time without any kind of splitting or parallelism. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
Complex values of the wavefunction refer to ‘real’ physics: the change of phase of a rotating vector that represents the particle. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Hyperion] Reference
It should be obvious by now that I no longer see a universe of particles but rather an entire system described by a huge wavefunction. From Wordnik.com. [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference
As a simple example we can consider a single particle whose wavefunction is different from zero only in two small and far apart regions h and t. From Wordnik.com. [Collapse Theories] Reference
The argument is based on the pre-supposition that you can start the food (salad) state and can then rotate the wavefunction to any intermediate state. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum interrogation] Reference
If you believe something like the Copenhagen interpretation, then yes, there really is a stochastic and irreversible process of wavefunction collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow of Time FAQ] Reference
Clifton, R.K. and Monton, B. (1999), “Losing your marbles in wavefunction collapse theories”, British Journal for Philosophy of Science 50, 697-717. From Wordnik.com. [Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics] Reference
In any case, the most hidden of all variables, in the pilot wave picture, is the wavefunction, which manifests itself to us only by its influence on the complementary variables. From Wordnik.com. [Bohmian Mechanics] Reference
Roughly speaking, the photons bouncing off of Hyperion act like a series of many little “observations of the wavefunction,” collapsing it into a state of definite orientation. From Wordnik.com. [Quantum Hyperion] Reference
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