RE: First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)
June 8, 2015 at 11:13 am
Okay, my questions are as follows:
1. Once the wave function is collapsed is it collapsed for all time? So if I observe light as a particle today do all other observers from this day forth observe it as a particle as well?
2. Is the wave function only collapsed by subjective observation or may it be collapsed by objective observation? So if an inanimate object responds to the light as if it were a particle does this reaction constitute an objective "observation" of the light that collapses the wave function?
3. If the wave function is collapsed for all time upon observation and the function may be collapsed by an objective observation (as exhibited in the reaction of the object to the quantum state) of inanimate objects than may it be said all quantum states are determined upon initial interaction with another object for all time?
1. Once the wave function is collapsed is it collapsed for all time? So if I observe light as a particle today do all other observers from this day forth observe it as a particle as well?
2. Is the wave function only collapsed by subjective observation or may it be collapsed by objective observation? So if an inanimate object responds to the light as if it were a particle does this reaction constitute an objective "observation" of the light that collapses the wave function?
3. If the wave function is collapsed for all time upon observation and the function may be collapsed by an objective observation (as exhibited in the reaction of the object to the quantum state) of inanimate objects than may it be said all quantum states are determined upon initial interaction with another object for all time?