Re: MWI AND COPENHAGEN FALSIFYIED?

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

I believe that the URL for the powerpoint presentation of
 Cramer's interpretation of Afshar's experiment that Bob
 intended us to see is here:

 <http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/PowerPoint/Boskone_0402.ppt>

Brian W

At 07:52 PM 4/29/2004, you wrote:
> Dear List Members:
>
> A recent experiment claims to falsify both the Copenhagen and
> the MW interpretation of quantum Mechanics but provides results
> which conforms to theTransactional Interpretation.
> This is an idea developed from the Wheeler Feynman
> absorber theory by Dr. Cramer of the University of Washington.
>  I have a useful link which talks about this though the actual paper
>  is not yet available.     has a flurry of emails back and forth
>  today on this and I have a reply from Dr. Cramer which is below the
>  link and provides some additional links. If this pans out this is big
> news though of course it's too early to be sure.
>
> Bob Zannelli
>
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> <http://64.233.161.104/search?q=3Dcache:AN9UxmCda50J:faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/PowerPoint/Boskone_0402.ppt+Boskone_0402&hlen&ieUTF-8>
>
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> Dear Bob,
>
>             In my opinion, the Afshar Experiment falsifies both the
> Copenhagen Interpretation and the Many-Worlds Interpretation by
> demonstrating in a two-pinhole setup the presence of complete wave
> interference in an unambiguous which way measurement.
> My Transactional Interpretation (see
>  <http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/theory.html> ) has no problem
>  in explaining what Afsharobserves.
>
> Afshar is a Visiting Scientist in the Harvard Physics Department.
>  He was planning to submit a paper about his experiment to Physical
> Review Letters last week, but I haven't heard for sure that he in fact
> did this. He has the experiment set up in the old High Energy Physics
> Lab building at Harvard and I have seen it in operation.
>
>             Last February I gave a talk that, with his permission,
> described his experiment.  You can find the PowerPoint slides from
> my talk at
>  <http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/talks.html> .
>
> Regards,
> John Cramer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RBZannelli@aol.com [mailto:RBZannelli@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:48 AM
> To: cramer@phys.washington.edu
> Subject: Afshar's Experiment
>
> Dear Dr. Cramer:
>         There seems to be quite a stir about an experiment conducted
> by Dr. Afshar which makes the claim that it falsifies both
> Copenhagen and the many worlds interpretations of QM.
> However, there seems to be no information available
> about the details of this experiment.
>    In all honesty I am highly skeptical of these claims.
>  Nevertheless, if true, this would be very big news.
> Could you provide any clarification on this?
> Is there a paper available on this?
>
> Regards,
> Bob Zannelli


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!