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Connecting the dots: Mott for emulsions, collapse models, colored noise, frame dependence of measurements, evasion of the "Free Will Theorem"

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arxiv 1807.11450 v3 pith:IKUYW2ZN submitted 2018-07-30 quant-ph

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We review the argument that latent image formation is a measurement in which the state vector collapses, requiring an enhanced noise parameter in objective reduction models. Tentative observation of a residual noise at this level, plus several experimental bounds, imply that the noise must be colored (i.e., non-white), and hence frame dependent and non-relativistic. Thus a relativistic objective reduction model, even if achievable in principle, would be incompatible with experiment, the best one can do is the non-relativistic CSL model. This negative conclusion has a positive aspect, in that the non-relativistic CSL reduction model evades the argument leading to the Conway--Kochen "Free Will Theorem".

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