[ExI] Deep roots of Quantum Mechanics [WAS Re: Psi in a major science journal...]

[Richard Loosemore]

spike wrote:

> Either explanation boggles the hell outta my mind, and I can't help getting
> the feeling there must be (there MUST BE!) some alternate explanation that
> no one has thought of yet.  Please anyone here, I am open to suggestion,
> waaaay open: how and why does the double slit experiment work?  

In answer to this, and your previous question about whether God had any 
choice in making the universe in a quantum way...

The answer is probably going to come down to the fact that you actually 
cannot have a universe in which things can be measured to infinite 
precision, without things touching each other.  (This is an extension of 
the Maxwell's Demon issue).

If particles could do that, it would have to involve some kind of 
telepathy between them (they would have to collect information about 
each other without interfering with one another).  If they could do 
that, you suddenly have a helluva mind-body problem (how does the 
non-touching gathering of information interface to the behavior of the 
particles that is part of the regular universe of physics?).

So it might well be that no matter how long you sit around figuring out 
how to invent a universe, all the designs involving perfect measurement 
have to be thrown in God's trashcan, and the only one that works has a 
breakdown at some scale.  The quantum scale.

Then the rest -- double slit experiment and all -- follows from that one 
premise.

I keep meaning to write this up (if someone has not done so already), 
but don't have the time.




Richard Loosemore