Quantum Indeterminacy in Extra Innings
From the AP report on tonight's 12-6 win by the Red Sox over Tampa Bay:
"Kyle Snyder (2-2) scattered one hit over two innings for the win."
"Kyle Snyder (2-2) scattered one hit over two innings for the win."
posted by pn at 11:38 PM
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New book. The Underlying Machinery of Quantum Indeterminacy: The Answer to a Century of Questions
https://quantum-indeterminacy.science/
The density operator or density matrix conveys probability information for all eigenstates of a quantum system’s full set of complementary variables. It plays a generative role in the creation of indefinite information.
In experiments, referential ambiguity is present in systems prepared as mixed states. This referential ambiguity is conveyed in the density operator.
It is important to understand that measurement hardware communicates with the density operator, not with the preparation history. Information passes from the preparation hardware into the quantum system’s density matrix; then from the density matrix to the measurement hardware. The density operator is the information carrier communicating between preparation and measurement; but due to referential ambiguity in the density operator, that communication is not one-one. As a quantum system is prepared to make a prepared state, its density operator evolves deterministically, resulting in a density operator determined by its preparation history. So, prior to measurement, the density operator is deterministic. But critically — for mixed states — the density operator does not have a unique history. Hence, when a measurement asks the question: what history caused this density matrix? the answer is an ambiguous one.
By comparison, in the case of planets moving under gravity, questions asking: ‘What history caused this motion?’ would have definite answers; but for photon polarisation, the question: ‘What history caused this outcome?’ does not. The essential difference is that the planet does not need unitary symmetry to represent its motion, and so, does not convey the unitary symmetry’s associated referential ambiguity.
New book:
The Underlying Machinery of Quantum Indeterminacy: The Answer to a Century of Questions
This book is an in-depth examination of Quantum Mathematics, for freedoms it imposes on Quantum Theory. Readers are given an exposition showing indeterminacy has origins in underlying mathematical processes; contradicting the view that quantum randomness is irreducible or predeterminated.
https://quantum-indeterminacy.science/
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