Varáveis Ocultas para Fayman
Enviado: 02 Abr 2006, 11:34
Olá,
o Julio enviou-me um material sobre a questão das variáveis ocultas . Há um artigo interessante escrito por um não físico no link abaixo:
http://fergusmurray.members.beeb.net/Causality.html
Nesse artigo, o autor diz:
"Any fundamentally probabilistic theory could be simulated with arbitrary precision by a deterministic model. We could imagine, for instance, replacing the probabilities in quantum theory with the roll of a deterministic but in practice unpredictable die; the substitution would make no difference whatever to any of our calculations, as we remained unable to give an account of the behaviour of the die going beyond its apparent randomness. It is also possible that there are patterns in the data which are too subtle for us to have noticed yet, but which may one day become apparent – for instance, if the outcomes of experiments turned out to be determined not by probabilities but by a function which varies rapidly with time (sinusoidally, perhaps) we could easily have missed this fact – especially since almost nobody is trying to find such patterns; it was accepted by most of the physics community long ago that quantum mechanics just is indeterministic, and there is no sense trying to avoid this – although it has to be said that the principle that every event must have sufficient cause served us rather well in the days before quantum physics. The only way in principle to distinguish between something which is intrinsically random, and something which follows pre-determined patterns, is to find the patterns. We can never be certain that we are not missing an underlying pattern which fully determining outcomes, because such a pattern can have effects arbitrarily similar to true intrinsic randomness; we can rule out such patterns one by one, but we can never rule out their existence entirely."
O Julio perguntou ao Brian Josephson se esse trecho acima está correto:
"I would very much appreciate if you could take a look at the brief passage below and provide me a feedback as to whether this is technically correct or not. It is about quantum mecanics; and since the author (Fergus Ray Murray) does not seem to be a physicist (he says about himself 'I am a 27-year-old programmer, writer, web designer, photographer, animator, singer-songwriter, and sculptor'), and also since I myself am not a physicist (but I am very much interested in the kind of statements that Murray made in the lines below...), I fear that he may be terribly wrong or something like that. I myself fully agree with his passage below, and that is the reason for my concern..."
Josephson respondeu:
"I've not studied the article in complete detail, but the author seems very well up in the various issues. You will notice that his 'acknowledgements' say:
'This essay owes much to the thoughts of the Physics & Philosophy group at Bristol University, both the graduates of 1999 and our seminar tutees, Mauricio Suarez, James Ladyman and Vincent Smith.'
The statement you quote appears correct but there are of course the locality issues that QM is intertwined with, and which he discusses elsewhere on that page."
Então aparentemente, ao contrário do que pensa Fayman, e corroborando o que é dito por Richard Shoup do Boundary Institute (junto com Dean Radin), de fato a interpretação de que os eventos quânticos são aleatórios e acausais foi algo aceito pela comunidade científica sem que contudo seja necessariamente correto. Também, as tais teorias das variáveis ocultas, de acordo com o artigo citado acima, parecem longe de terem sido de fato desbancadas. Houve mesmo, segundo Bell, uma rejeição quase religiosa da visão de Bohm e pensadores similares (tanto anteriores quanto posteriores).
Um abraço,
Vitor
o Julio enviou-me um material sobre a questão das variáveis ocultas . Há um artigo interessante escrito por um não físico no link abaixo:
http://fergusmurray.members.beeb.net/Causality.html
Nesse artigo, o autor diz:
"Any fundamentally probabilistic theory could be simulated with arbitrary precision by a deterministic model. We could imagine, for instance, replacing the probabilities in quantum theory with the roll of a deterministic but in practice unpredictable die; the substitution would make no difference whatever to any of our calculations, as we remained unable to give an account of the behaviour of the die going beyond its apparent randomness. It is also possible that there are patterns in the data which are too subtle for us to have noticed yet, but which may one day become apparent – for instance, if the outcomes of experiments turned out to be determined not by probabilities but by a function which varies rapidly with time (sinusoidally, perhaps) we could easily have missed this fact – especially since almost nobody is trying to find such patterns; it was accepted by most of the physics community long ago that quantum mechanics just is indeterministic, and there is no sense trying to avoid this – although it has to be said that the principle that every event must have sufficient cause served us rather well in the days before quantum physics. The only way in principle to distinguish between something which is intrinsically random, and something which follows pre-determined patterns, is to find the patterns. We can never be certain that we are not missing an underlying pattern which fully determining outcomes, because such a pattern can have effects arbitrarily similar to true intrinsic randomness; we can rule out such patterns one by one, but we can never rule out their existence entirely."
O Julio perguntou ao Brian Josephson se esse trecho acima está correto:
"I would very much appreciate if you could take a look at the brief passage below and provide me a feedback as to whether this is technically correct or not. It is about quantum mecanics; and since the author (Fergus Ray Murray) does not seem to be a physicist (he says about himself 'I am a 27-year-old programmer, writer, web designer, photographer, animator, singer-songwriter, and sculptor'), and also since I myself am not a physicist (but I am very much interested in the kind of statements that Murray made in the lines below...), I fear that he may be terribly wrong or something like that. I myself fully agree with his passage below, and that is the reason for my concern..."
Josephson respondeu:
"I've not studied the article in complete detail, but the author seems very well up in the various issues. You will notice that his 'acknowledgements' say:
'This essay owes much to the thoughts of the Physics & Philosophy group at Bristol University, both the graduates of 1999 and our seminar tutees, Mauricio Suarez, James Ladyman and Vincent Smith.'
The statement you quote appears correct but there are of course the locality issues that QM is intertwined with, and which he discusses elsewhere on that page."
Então aparentemente, ao contrário do que pensa Fayman, e corroborando o que é dito por Richard Shoup do Boundary Institute (junto com Dean Radin), de fato a interpretação de que os eventos quânticos são aleatórios e acausais foi algo aceito pela comunidade científica sem que contudo seja necessariamente correto. Também, as tais teorias das variáveis ocultas, de acordo com o artigo citado acima, parecem longe de terem sido de fato desbancadas. Houve mesmo, segundo Bell, uma rejeição quase religiosa da visão de Bohm e pensadores similares (tanto anteriores quanto posteriores).
Um abraço,
Vitor