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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: QM nonsense
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Date: 12 Feb 92 14:04:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)

In article <406@tdatirv.UUCP>, sarima@tdatirv (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>Perhaps not, but a recent experiment has shown that a brain is not necessary
>for causing a wave-function colapse, just any measuring instrument, even
>if it is never looked at (indeed even if it is not producing any observable
>output to look at).

I have made this correction several times, and I will continue to make it.
The above claim is nonsense, and has been known to be nonsense for decades.
See Wigner and von Neumann's work on measurement.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


