Re: Quantum Time Travel

From: Jacques Mallah <jackmallah.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 18:46:45 -0700 (PDT)

--- Russell Standish <R.Standish.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> Jacques Mallah wrote:
> > First, telling me a formula for the measure
> > distribution (if there were one) doesn't answer my
> > question, because you didn't tell me how the Sh.
> > eq. gives rise to that formula. Derive it.
>
> See my Occam paper. Projection (in a general sense)
> is a postulated property of consciousness. Along
> with linearity and time, these postulate lead to a
> SE with a measure distribution as above.

    I saw your paper. It didn't make much sense.

> > Since A|y> = y|y>, your statement was that
> > M(y) = y <y|x>, which is not the usual formula.
>
> Sorry, I was thinking of projection operators. More
> generally, one needs to renomalise, i.e.
>
> M(y) = <y|A|x>/<y|A|y>

    resulting in M(y) = y <y|x> / (y <y|y>) = <y|x>
which is still the wrong formula since M(y) should be
p(y) = |<y|x>|^2. Your paper seemed, from what I
could tell, to have the same problem and thus give a
wrong prediction.

> A quantum history is a set of observed outcomes
> (linked by time), governed by a quantum process (ie
> Schroedinger equation).

    First, explain what you mean by "linked". Second,
the SE governs a physical system, not a "set of
observed outcomes".


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Received on Mon May 15 2000 - 18:48:46 PDT

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