CRITICAL REVIEW OF FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN PHYSICS Part 4 – “Classical Origins of Quantum Superposition”
According to the concepts of modern physics, the phenomenon of “superposition” of probability amplitudes is characteristic only of quantum processes in the micro world and has no classical analogue. In this part of the text we show that the phenomenon of “superposition” is characteristic not only of objects of the micro world, and a similar phenomenon can be introduced into the probabilistic method of describing processes in the macro world. We indicate the fundamental principles of probability theory, common to both the micro world and the macro world, according to which the phenomenon of “quantum superposition” seems to us to be a special case of these principles. The study conducted in this part of the text is a direct demonstration of the idea expressed in the first part, according to which, due to the fact that the transfer of the simplest principles of probability theory to a wider space of probability amplitudes was carried out in parallel with the formation of quantum-mechanical concepts, many mathematical principles used in the implementation of these concepts were completely unjustifiably declared an exceptional feature of the quantum nature of the micro world. The results of the analysis presented in this part of the text will facilitate an easier understanding of the details of the phenomenon of “quantum superposition” discussed in the fourth part than is possible on the basis of the results of the analyses presented in textbooks on quantum mechanics.
Index Terms– Quantum computer; Quantum or classical superposition; Collapse of the wave function; Reduction of the wave function; Classical or quantum.
