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Comment #21306440
Koberlein's explanation is okay but I read Burns's "Keep velocity constant on z-axis" as an instruction rather than an assumption. In that light the error doesn't appear so subtle …
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Comment #21261311
"Oversimplified" is one way of putting it. I'd prefer to call it "simply incorrect". The manner in which the ring's rest mass is increased [decreased] is ignored[1]. If you don't i…
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Comment #20566518
Well, I'd strongly disagree with Hossenfelder's contention that "what this math is about has remained unclear" (see e.g. the links in here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1931…
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Comment #19412538
> for all this experiment to be valid to begin with,the idea that superpositions exist must be true, correct? Depends what you mean by "exist". All that needs to be true - and is t…
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Comment #19319915
No, it mustn't! The logical negation of the conjunction "classical* and local" is "non-classical or non-local". Electrical universe theory"?! Please stick to standard and generally…
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Comment #19318323
Well, that is what I said: non-locality is just an artifact "of certain interpretations / modifications of QM" . Bell's theorem doesn't prove non-locality; what it proves is that n…
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Comment #19316535
> If foundations of QM are non-local They're not. Non-locality is an artifact of certain interpretations / modifications of QM (where it isn't simply a misconception). See e.g. htt…
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Comment #19315457
"Both monism and many worlds can be avoided, but only when one either changes the formalism of quantum mechanics—typically in ways that are in conflict with Einstein’s theory of sp…
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Comment #16508470
"Objective wavefunction collapse" is not a good "aka" for the CI. There is a great deal of objectivity in it but there's an essential element of subjectivity (shared by neo-CI desc…