Abstract
This is one of a series of articles building a map of elementary waves, based on experimental data and quantum mathematics. Previous articles showed that elementary waves carry no energy. Particles follow them backwards. Why? Elementary rays consist of probability amplitudes, which influence particles because that is what probability amplitudes do. Elementary waves are that part of nature corresponding to quantum mathematics. Since these waves are the physical analogs of quantum equations, those equations provide a roadmap to the world of elementary waves: a map written in hieroglyphs. Quantum math is our Rosetta stone. The quantum world is far, far more similar to the world of everyday experience than quantum experts think. Waves are in a superposition. Particles are not. Wave function collapse does not occur when we measure something. It had occurred much earlier, when the object came into existence. This resolves insoluble problems that stumped John von Neumann. The smooth functioning of a Schrödinger equation abruptly collapses into one specific eigenstate when a gun is fired, not when the bullet hits the target. The bullet that caused World War I is an example. That bullet caused an abrupt collapse of the smooth probabilities of commerce and diplomacy.
Highlights
If a person stands pointing a pistol at a target, and pulls the trigger, when does wave function collapse occur? When do all the different probabilities for that bullet collapse into one definite reality?A
If we shrink the everyday world down to the subatomic size, at what point in that downsizing would the timing of wave function collapse jump from B to A? Either there is a discontinuity in how cause and effect operate as we downsize the scale, or else there is a discontinuity in human imagination as we diminish the scale
If wave function collapse always occurs at the target in the quantum world, at what level of inflation would the location of wave function collapse jump from the target to the gun? Either there is a discontinuity in how cause and effect operate as we increase the size, or there is a discontinuity in human imagination as we inflate the scale
Summary
If a person stands pointing a pistol at a target, and pulls the trigger, when does wave function collapse occur? When do all the different probabilities for that bullet collapse into one definite reality?. If a person stands pointing a pistol at a target, and pulls the trigger, when does wave function collapse occur? If we shrink the everyday world down to the subatomic size, at what point in that downsizing would the timing of wave function collapse jump from B to A? Either there is a discontinuity in how cause and effect operate as we downsize the scale, or else there is a discontinuity in human imagination as we diminish the scale. If wave function collapse always occurs at the target in the quantum world, at what level of inflation would the location of wave function collapse jump from the target to the gun? Either there is a discontinuity in how cause and effect operate as we increase the size, or there is a discontinuity in human imagination as we inflate the scale If wave function collapse always occurs at the target in the quantum world, at what level of inflation would the location of wave function collapse jump from the target to the gun? Either there is a discontinuity in how cause and effect operate as we increase the size, or there is a discontinuity in human imagination as we inflate the scale
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