Kathy,
Could you provide us with an ontology that has no physical objects in
it, just quantum-mechanical wave functions? I have to admit that my
imagination fails me here and I can't figure out what an ontology like
that would look like. (01)
Pat (02)
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> Kathryn Blackmond Laskey
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> Pat -
>
> > To say there are protons "in the nucleus" does not make any
> >commitment as to whether the thing called "proton" is a
> point particle
> >or a distributed wave function;
>
> I wasn't talking about localization. I was talking about the
> existence of a "thing" we can call a proton. In quantum mechanics
> there are no distinguishable "things" we can identify as individual
> protons. Rather, there is only one "thing" we can identify as an
> n-proton wave function, where n is the number of protons in the
> universe. In relativistic quantum theory, there isn't even a
> definite number of protons. There is just a mass-energy function
> that gives probabilities that if proton-localization experiments are
> conducted at given locations, proton-detection events will occur.
>
> K
>
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