The Observer That Had To Touch (Quest for Entropy #11)
Marijus Masteika
Quest for Entropy #11: I spent this whole quest watching my machines. Then I understood that watching can never work. - Nothing here derives quantum mechanics, the Born rule, or measurement. A no-go result says what a class of approaches cannot do; it builds nothing. - The temporal Bell inequality is Leggett and Garg's, from 1985, with a large and good literature around it. - The ping-pong balls explain why measurement has to be an interaction, and that is all I use them for. They are not an explanation of the uncertainty principle — "we bumped it" is a famously insufficient account of that, and the real story is deeper than clumsiness.
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