Hal Finney wrote:
>The MWI is just the quantum formalism minus
>wave function collapse and is therefore perfectly compatible with this
>experiment, since the experiment is itself compatible with the quantum
>formalism.
Would this experimental result actually be predicted by the quantum
formalism, though? It sounds like they had a setup similar to the
double-slit experiment and found a small amount of interference even when
they measured which hole the particle traveled through, but I thought the
quantum formalism predicts that interference would be completely destroyed
by such a measurement.
Either way, the claim that this supports the transactional interpretation
but not the MWI interpretation can't be right, since both are supposed to be
equally compatible with the quantum formalism.
Jesse
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Received on Mon Apr 26 2004 - 15:39:19 PDT