Information and Quantum Mechanics

Dear Jerry and all:

>Does Quantum Mechanics start from a systematic perspective of
>interactions between ALL particles in the system and assert that a class
>of differential equations will describe the evolution of the system?

   Perhaps, a physicist claiming such a systematic perspective
may live outside of it. But, where?
    
>In other words, in an analogy with a thermodynamic
>sense, is a quantum mechanical system an isolated system? Is this the
>source of the measurement problem? Is it possible to make a metaphor
>between the measurement problem and "begging the question"?

   It seems to me that you are just hitting the mark. Quantum mechanics
as a theory can be complete and isolated, but the issue of measurement
is strenuously asking the theory what its outside looks like.
  
   Regards,
   Koichiro

     Koichiro Matsuno
Received on Tue Jan 13 05:45:03 1998