Toward Topological Descriptions of the Therapeutic Process: Part 3. Two New Metaphors Based on Quantum Superposition, Wave Function “Collapse,” and Conic Sections

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 452-460
Author(s):  
Lionel R. Milgrom
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Conic Sections ◽  
Quantum Superposition ◽  
Wave Function Collapse

scholarly journals Detecting wave function collapse without prior knowledge

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (8) ◽  
pp. 082103
Author(s):  
Charles Wesley Cowan ◽  
Roderich Tumulka
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Wave Function Collapse

scholarly journals Does particle decay cause wave function collapse: an experimental test

2003 ◽  
Vol 308 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 323-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer R. Klein ◽  
Joakim Nystrand
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Experimental Test ◽  
Wave Function Collapse ◽  
Particle Decay

scholarly journals If the propagator of QED were reversed, the mathematics of Nature would be much simpler

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 129-153
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Path Integral ◽  
Quantum Electrodynamics ◽  
Probability Amplitude ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Wave Function Collapse ◽  
Path Integral Approach ◽  
Classical World ◽  
The Many

In Quantum ElectroDynamics (QED) the propagator is a function that describes the probability amplitude of a particle going from point A to B. It summarizes the many paths of Feynman’s path integral approach. We propose a reverse propagator (R-propagator) that, prior to the particle’s emission, summarizes every possible path from B to A. Wave function collapse occurs at point A when the particle randomly chooses one and only one of many incident paths to follow backwards with a probability of one, so it inevitably strikes detector B. The propagator and R-propagator both calculate the same probability amplitude. The R-propagator has an advantage over the propagator because it solves a contradiction inside QED, namely QED says a particle must take EVERY path from A to B. With our model the particle only takes one path. The R-propagator had already taken every path into account. We propose that this tiny, infinitesimal change from propagator to R-propagator would vastly simplify the mathematics of Nature. Many experiments that currently describe the quantum world as weird, change their meaning and no longer say that. The quantum world looks and acts like the classical world of everyday experience.

scholarly journals OBSERVER INVARIANCE OF THE COLLAPSE POSTULATE OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (01n03) ◽  
pp. 1345013 ◽  
Author(s):  
MILTON A. DA SILVA ◽  
ROBERTO M. SERRA ◽  
LUCAS C. CÉLERI
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Reference Frame ◽  
Relative Motion ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
Measurement Process ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Wave Function Collapse ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Effective Efficiency

We analyze the wave function collapse as seen by two distinct observers (with identical detectors) in relative motion. Imposing that the measurement process demands information transfer from the system to the detectors, we note that although different observers will acquire different amount of information from their measurements due to correlations between spin and momentum variables, all of them will agree about the orthogonality of the outcomes, as defined by their own reference frame. So, in this sense, such a quantum mechanical postulate is observer invariant, however the effective efficiency of the measurement process differs for each observer.

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