Dumb Tirades Nearly A Liar Paradox Inwards Quantum Mechanics

A reader has linked to around other weird text well-nigh the foundations of quantum mechanics that was published inwards Scientific American,

Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think

and that describes a paper combining wrong claims well-nigh non-locality of quantum mechanics, wrong claims well-nigh "quantum mechanics that precisely tells us well-nigh the averages", amongst around novel superstitious hype that makes quantum mechanics "diabolical" too non precisely "weird", too amongst boozer suggestions that quantum mechanics should accept 2 states too non i state.

The championship uses the concept of "escalating hype" – quantum mechanics is "even spookier than y'all think" – that basically emulates the linguistic communication of the climate alarmists. Whenever their latest predictions too other claims are proven to last completely wrong in i trial again, they double downwards too create fifty-fifty to a greater extent than absurd claims that the "catastrophes are fifty-fifty worse than previously thought".

In this way, they expression the decrease of their influence – due to the late invalidated prediction – to last compensated yesteryear the "increased threat" that they seek to spread. Apologies but this isn't how honest scientists run – too sensible consumers of scientific discipline precisely eliminate such sources of data from their listing of credible or usable sources.

The materials that the anti-quantum zealots are writing is increasingly idiotic too incoherent. I don't intend it makes feel to waste matter fourth dimension amongst every similar newspaper that makes it to the media.




H5N1 related newspaper yesteryear a similar, self-referring grouping of by too large self-citing babblers was published inwards January:

Interaction-Free Effects Between Distant Atoms

One get-go cute improvement appears inwards the listing of authors. Aside from Aharonov, Cohen, too Elitzur – who accept produced lots of garbage well-nigh "weak measurements" over the years – around other stellar co-author has been added, the crackpot-in-chief Lee Smolin.




They utter over 2 atoms, i excited atom too i inwards the terra firma state, that accept – afterwards around fourth dimension (which is incorrectly quantified) – a 50% probability to switch their "ground/excited" labels yesteryear a photon that is emitted yesteryear the excited atom too absorbed yesteryear the atom inwards the terra firma state.

Now, these iv men claim that this setup is a realization of the "liar paradox".

Let us summarize. The indication of atom A/B that it has never emitted/absorbed a photon, which may naively advise that it could non last entangled amongst B/A, is the number of this really A-B entanglement. The classical liar paradox stemming from Epimenides’ claim that “all Cretans are liars” is non necessarily absurd when stated yesteryear a quantum-mechanical Cretan (see likewise [13]).

Holy crap. They basically say

The entangled patch of 2 atoms is equivalent to the master copy "not exchanged" situation; too it's likewise equivalent to the "exchanged" situation. So the "exchanged" too "not exchanged" situations imply each other, too that's a paradox.

This reasoning is null else than around other symptom of the soft feces inwards the authors' skulls. In reality, the superposition patch \(\ket\alpha + \ket\beta\) is manifestly "equivalent" neither to \(\ket\alpha\) nor to \(\ket\beta\), then there's no vogue to demo that \(\ket\alpha\) too \(\ket\beta\) follow from each other. When the states \(\ket\alpha\) too \(\ket\beta\) are orthogonal to each other, the physical situations they depict are mutually excluding, too no consideration of whatsoever superposition tin modify the fact.

The fact that \(\ket\alpha\) too \(\ket\beta\) are exclusive is their human relationship – given yesteryear the vanishing inner production – too whatsoever consideration of a tertiary vector such equally \(\ket\alpha+\ket\beta\) is a pure distraction. One entirely gets distracted then that he "forgets" or "overlooks" the orthogonality is a sign that i precisely cannot focus too his encephalon is inadequate for physics.

If i determines that the physical organization is inwards the patch \(\ket\alpha\), he knows it can't last inwards \(\ket\beta\), too vice versa. If he determines the physical organization is inwards \(\ket\alpha+\ket\beta\), it may last both inwards \(\ket\alpha\) too inwards \(\ket\beta\), but those 2 options are notwithstanding mutually exclusive.

It's spectacularly obvious that quantum mechanics, when used properly, precisely cannot Pb to whatsoever logical paradoxes of this kind. But despite this self-evident fact, these iv authors write over threescore pages (on my screen) of similar garbage. Their organization is null else than around other rudimentary two-level organization that were discussed inwards the Feynman lectures except that Feynman's undergraduates were supposed to solve these systems correctly, piece Smolin too his colleagues precisely don't accept the slightest adventure to overstep this basic undergraduate test.

The entirely right judgement inwards the newspaper is a judgement inwards which the authors refer to themselves,

"all cretins are liars",

but fifty-fifty this judgement isn't quite right. It's misspelled. On meridian of that, it's non master copy because Epimenides is cited equally the source of that insight.

I intend that pretty much all people who role quantum mechanics to practice around real stuff know really good that papers similar that are worthless rubbish. But at that topographic point are then many idiots inwards this "quantum foundations" would-be plain too then many idiots inwards the "infrastructure" surrounding this plain – too the Academia – that they are doing fine when they marketplace this garbage equally a scholarly activity.