Does Particle System Collapse Depend on Mass, Momentum, or Complexity?

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AndrzejB
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Time to the collapse macroscopic object depends on its mass/momentum or complexity?
Does the time to the collapse of a particle system depend mainly on its mass/momentum, or complexity? For example macroscopic object.
If system is quite isolated, is no spontaneous collapse even massive or complex systems?
 
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  • #2
AndrzejB said:
time to the collapse
There is no such thing in standard QM. What model or interpretation are you asking about?
 
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PeterDonis said:
There is no such thing in standard QM. What model or interpretation are you asking about?
For example in Wojciech Zurek theory - decoherence time (although decoherence not means collaps)
 
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AndrzejB said:
decoherence time
Which is not the same thing as "time to collapse", as you note. What do you want to ask about?
 
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Perhaps the OP means to ask if the "time for the Shoedinger wave function to collapse" is affected by the "mass/momentum" of a macroscopic object or by its "complexity". @AndrzejB: is this summary appropriate?

(Quote marks because I suspect some of the assumptions made)
 
  • #6
@DStahl all you have done is repeat the OP question, which has the issues I have already pointed out. We don't need anyone else repeating the OP's question. We need the OP to clarify what they want to ask about.
 

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