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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2006-08-22 02:19 pm

The ontology of quantum mechanics

This amused me as one of the odder pieces of mathematical formalism I've ever seen.



It's Penrose's interpretation of the U state of the Schrödinger's cat experiment using the "many worlds" ontological interpretation of the state vector |Ψ>.

Penrose The Road to Reality p807.

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