Archive for April, 2006

Realists on the counter attack

25th April 2006

Martin Daumer, Detlef Duerr, Sheldon Goldstein, Tim Maudlin, Roderich Tumulka and Nino Zanghi, a collection of scholars noted for their advocacy or realist interpretations of quantum mechanics, and Bohmian mechanics in particular, have posted an article on quant-ph that attacks the idea that quantum theory is “fundamentally about information”. The article is a response [...]

Rovellifest 1

17th April 2006

Carlo Rovelli has recently put 3 papers on the arXiv, which have attracted some attention within the blogsphere (see here, here, here and here). The one that concerns us here at QQ is the paper about EPR in the relational approach to QM. I don't want to comment on the particular argument in [...]

The Church of the Smaller Hilbert Space

13th April 2006

This is supposed to be a balanced blog, but my nonexistent readership may wish to know exactly what I do believe about quantum mechanics. The document below explains everything.
WARNING: The document below contains geek humor that also parodies the style of a certain well-known religious text. If you don't find jokes about density operators funny [...]

The Free Will Theorem

13th April 2006

Michael Nielsen recently posted a comment by John Sidles about a preprint by Kochen and Conway that was posted on the quant-ph arXiv yesterday. It's called "The Free Will Theorem", which is certainly a provocative title. Here's my comment on the paper that I left on Mike's blog.
Hmm… I had a look at [...]