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by jacobmoe 2612 days ago
No, under most interpretations of QM, things literally behave differently at that scale. Under Copenhagen, the wave literally collapses into a fixed position/momentum. The pre measurement wave isn't a statement of our ignorance of the system but rather a description of reality. The many worlds is even more serious in its quantum literalism. Far from pushing around the subject of your experiment with a too-big measuring device, you're actually branching worlds where all predictions of the wave function occur.
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exoesquitur 2612 days ago
To me, many worlds + time (as an inviolate observed vector) being merely a consequence of our inability to observe without moving foreward in time based on our entropic process driven cociousness, seems by far the most comprehensive explanation of observable phenomenon.

That observational uncertainty increases as the probability of direct interaction decreases (distance, time) strongly supports the hypothesis that observable phenomena are dictated strongly by the presentation and characteristic relationship of the observer to the phenomenon.

We know on the micro scale that all possible states exist simultaneously.

It seems logical, even axiomatic then that on the macro scale the same applies, but that we can only observe the bandwidth of states in which it is possible for us to exist to make the observation.

To claim that this state uncertainty is magically resolved in all cases and coherently for all possible observers into a single set of states seems an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.

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scotty79 2612 days ago
> The pre measurement wave isn't a statement of our ignorance of the system but rather a description of reality.

Post measurement particle is description of our ignorance not a description of reality.

It still evolves according to Schrödinger equation (which degrades to newtonian dynamics for sharp and narrow waves) but for historical reasons we choose to talk about it as it was little billiard ball, not still a wave just sharpened and narrowed down by intraction we call measurement.

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