The ontology of quantum mechanics

[chickenfeet]

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.

Comments

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I think that is wonderful!

[lnr]

I love the little chap's facial expression.

Well, that and the fact it was immediately obvious what it was about, even if I don't actually understand the maths.

Some day I'm really going to have to get over my fear of maths and actually learn the stuff I nominally have a degree in, aren't I?