RE: A Conscious Universe
February 1, 2015 at 9:34 am
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2015 at 9:35 am by Alex K.)
If anything like the Many Worlds interpretation is correct, the particle indeed does not have definite momentum and position, because the rules of fourier analysis forbid it in principle - a wave function cannot be confined in an arbitrarily narrow space without parts of it representing different and arbitrarily large momenta. If something like Bohmian mechanics is closer to what nature does, particles do indeed have a definitite momentum and position, because the wave function is merely guiding the actual point particle. If you follow something like the copenhagen interpretation, you simply don't ask the question, I'd say.
Bohmian mechanics is hard to marry with modern particle physics, though.
Bohmian mechanics is hard to marry with modern particle physics, though.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
