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View SchemaThere is Neither Classical Bug with a Superluminal Shadow Nor Quantum Absolute Collapse Nor (Subquantum) Superluminal Hidden Variable
| Authors | Vladan Pankovic, Milan Predojevic, Miodrag Krmar, Milan Radovanovic |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0504071 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0504071 |
Abstract
In this work we analyse critically Griffiths's example of the classical superluminal motion of a bug shadow. Griffiths considers that this example is conceptually very close to quantum nonlocality or superluminality,i.e. quantum breaking of the famous Bell inequality. Or, generally, he suggests implicitly an absolute asymmetric duality (subluminality vs. superluminality) principle in any fundamental physical theory.It, he hopes, can be used for a natural interpretation of the quantum mechanics too. But we explain that such Griffiths's interpretation retires implicitly but significantly from usual, Copenhagen interpretation of the standard quantum mechanical formalism. Within Copenhagen interpretation basic complementarity principle represents, in fact, a dynamical symmetry principle (including its spontaneous breaking, i.e. effective hiding by measurement). Similarly, in other fundamental physical theories instead of Griffiths's absolute asymmetric duality principle there is a dynamical symmetry (including its spontaneous breaking, i.e. effective hiding in some of these theories) principle. Finally, we show that Griffiths's example of the bug shadow superluminal motion is definitely incorrect (it sharply contradicts the remarkable Roemer's determination of the speed of light by coming late of Jupiter's first moon shadow).
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"Vladan Pankovic",
"Milan Predojevic",
"Miodrag Krmar",
"Milan Radovanovic"
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"title": "There is Neither Classical Bug with a Superluminal Shadow Nor Quantum Absolute Collapse Nor (Subquantum) Superluminal Hidden Variable",
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