Paradoxes

Florentín Smarandache

There can be generated many paradoxes or quasi-paradoxes that may occur from the combination of quantum and non-quantum worlds in physics. Even the passage from the micro-cosmos to the macro-cosmos, and reciprocally, can generate unsolved questions or counter-intuitive ideas. We define a quasi-paradox as a statement which has a prima facie self-contradictory support or an explicit contradiction, but which is not completely proven as a paradox. We present herein four elementary quantum quasi-paradoxes and their corresponding quantum Sorites paradoxes, which form a class of quantum quasi-paradoxes.

Michael Tsamparlis

Amalia Grigorescu

There can be generated many paradoxes or quasi-paradoxes that may occur from the combination of quantum and non-quantum worlds in physics. Even the passage from the micro-cosmos to the macro-cosmos, and reciprocally, can generate unsolved questions or counter-intuitive ideas. We define a quasi-paradox as a statement which has a prima facie self-contradictory support or an explicit contradiction, but which is not completely proven as a paradox. We present herein four elementary quantum quasi-paradoxes and their corresponding quantum Sorites paradoxes, which form a class of quantum quasi-paradoxes.

David Wick

Dipankar Home, M. A. B. Whitaker

The authors clarify some of the controversial aspects involved in the treatment of the quantum Zeno paradox. An argument for the paradox is given on the basis of the uncertainty principle, and the conditions for the paradox are analysed. Fleming's rule is proved in a simple way. Connection with the standard time-dependent perturbation theory is discussed. They compare the Zeno paradox with the other well known paradoxes of quantum mechanics and point out that the quantum Zeno paradox is immune to the use of the ensemble interpretation which has some success in tackling the other paradoxes. Remarks are made concerning the broader significance of the quantum Zeno paradox.