Comment on On Being Decoherent

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:51:22 GMT

"This happens when, way up at the macroscopic level, we 'measure' something."

vs. in objective collapse, when the collapse occurs has no necessary relationship to measurement.

Well, I don't agree with the "vs", but let that pass, since then the dialog quickly continues:

Then he reaches out for the paper, scratches out "When you perform a measurement on a quantum system", and writes in, "When a quantum superposition gets too large."

That occurs as early as one fourth of the way through the dialog, so that leaves three fourths of the dialog addressing what you are apparently calling an objective collapse theory.

Discuss