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selective synthesist
Aug 20, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
(1/4) Bong, Utreras-Alarcón, Ghafari, Liang, Tischler, @ericcavalcanti, Pryde & Wiseman, A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner’s friend paradox @NaturePhysics nature.com/articles/s4156… "we prove that if quantum evolution is controllable on the scale of an observer, then one of... (2/4) ... ‘No-Superdeterminism’, ‘Locality’ or ‘Absoluteness of Observed Events’—that every observed event exists absolutely, not relatively—must be false."
Since "observer" has not been defined, this is a little vague, but AOE is the one that is false.
Aug 12, 2020 6 tweets 6 min read
Bouncing back to the @ipam_ucla workshop on Mathematical Models in Understanding #COVID19
ipam.ucla.edu/programs/works…
to listen to @CT_Bergstrom discus "Proactive COVID-19 testing to mitigate spread". There are advantages to conferences being all online! .@CT_Bergstrom starts with disclosures: He, like all of us, has vested interests in controlling the #COVID19 #pandemic: