On a (Supposedly) Plausible Extension of Newtonian Collision Dynamics

Author: Laraudogoitia J.P.

Source: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 55, Number 2, June 2004 , pp. 365-370(6)

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Abstract:

In a recent volume of this journal, L. Angel ([2002]) proposed a collision mechanics leading to such strange results as the possibility that a particle may be in several places at the same time, or the existence of unprepared spatially-separated correlations. I will here show that neither of these results follows from his theory or, if it does, the theory, contrary to what Angel claims, is not a plausible extension of Newtonian collision dynamics.

No bilocation

No quantum leap

No unprepared spatially-separated correlations

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2004-06-01

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