C16008 - Concepts and Paradoxes

Concepts and Paradoxes

Microscopic Uncertainty Protects Macroscopic Causality and Free Will

Collisions and modular variables; More on superoscillations and conservation of energy;  Time-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics and Free Will

06-17
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The Cruel King's Problem; Interaction-Free Measurement; The Quantum Cheshire Cat, Weak Measurements and Weak Values

The Aharonov-Bergmann-Lebowitz Rule for weak and strong Measurements; The Quantum Pigeonhole Effect; Superoscillations and conservation of energy;  Conservation of energy and tunneling between space-like separated points.

06-16
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Interference with pre-selection, post-selection and weak measurements

Fermion phase, geometry, and the metric tensor

06-15
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Resolution of the paradox of the superposed flux shielded by a superconductor

The Aharonov-Casher Effect, interactions between charges and fluxes; Dynamical nonlocal exchange of modular momentum.

06-14
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Protective Measurement and Ergodicity

Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics in absolute time, the Heisenberg representation on a lattice with nonlocal jumps (teleportation), discretizing the position in order to obtain simple Heisenberg equations of motion; Intuition from this strictly nonrelativistic picture will still be useful in the general case; The importance of the right story and intuition, arguments against Many-Worlds;  More on the paradox of a superposed flux shielded by a superconductor.

06-13
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Sudden Sharp Forces and Nonlocal Interactions

Commutations Relations for Modular Variables, Connection to Action-Angle Variables; Periodic Potentials with the Aharonov-Bohm Effect; Paradox of a superposed flux shielded by a superconductor.

06-10
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Einstein and EPR

The Aharonov-Bohm Effect with an infinite grating with solenoids between each slit, Modular Momentum; Nonlocal exchange of Modular Momentum and Modular Energy; Scattering with both local and nonlocal interactions.

06-09
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The Aharonov-Bohm Effect

Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics with a Hamiltonian that causes instantaneous translations;  Nonlocal Heisenberg equations of motion for 2 boxes with a permeable common barrier and the 2-slit interferometer

06-08
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Quantum Paradoxes; Weak Measurement, Weak Values, and Protective Measurement

Classical interactions are ensemble averages of many weak quantum interactions.

06-02
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