Re: Witnesses, Observer Moments and Memories of a Past

From: rmiller <rmiller.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:23:02 -0500

At 10:31 PM 6/28/2005, Stephen Paul King wrote:
>Dear Lee,
>
> Are you familiar with any of the experiments that have been performed
> regarding "quantum counterfactuals" or "null measurements"? It turns out
> that the fact that some particular measure *was not made* counts just as
> much, and thus affects the results of a measurement, of an actual
> measurement that was made. Thus information of any occurrence or
> non-occurrence of a measure of a QM system, coded in an OM, will make a
> difference that can not be hand waved away.
> This is why I am introducing the notion of a witness.
>
> Interleaving...
RM: I assume this is not associated with Feynman's "all possible histories"
approach?
Received on Wed Jun 29 2005 - 00:27:32 PDT