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by jostylr 4366 days ago
That FAQ is generated by the students of a very trustworthy group. Students typically setup strawman when explaining things. Look more to the source. Also, they are trying to argue against a theory which no one wants to fully specify. So they have to come up with something definite. And as soon as they do, the other side says "Strawman!" And then proceeds, as you have just done, to refuse to give a definite theory.

As a student of that group as well, I can't say that I am all that pleased by that kind of argument.

The bottom line is that collapse is untenable. There is no good place to put it and yet it is needed by the standard theory.

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There is a range of possibilities of what might cause a wavefunction collapse, and the constructed strawman is nowhere near that. It would be like if we claimed the speed of light was 3.2e8 +/- 5e7 m/s and someone decided our whole theory was bunk because the speed of light is obviously faster than 100 m/s. Well yeah, it is, but there's no contradiction here.

"if the particle interacts with something in such a way that its position suddenly becomes deducible, then it collapses" would be a theory in the range of possibilities. It would be much more convincing to argue against something like that.