Quantum Measurements and Equilibration: Obtaining Information via Entropy Maximisation

In quantum physics, measurements don't just reveal properties - they can actually fuel processes. Dr. Maximilian Lock explains how extracting information from quantum systems is linked to increasing entropy and driving them towards equilibrium.

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[mikejurney]

How can measurement be entropy increasing? For after measurement, you know for certain what has happened, and increasing certainty is decreases entropy, right?

[Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

The two questions you have:
1. How can a closed system equilibrate?
2. How can unitary Evolution increase entropy?
1. If the mathematics of Quantum Mechanics represents the physics of time with a probabilistic uncertain ∆×∆pᵪ≥h/4π future coming into existence with the exchange of photon ∆E=hf energy, because it is just the exchange of energy we can have the potential for equilibrium within a closed system.
2. The absorption and emission of light waves continuously forming photon energy, or unit of unitary action, transforming potential energy PE into the kinetic Eₖ=½mv² energy of electrons or matter will form statistical entropy naturally increase the potential for equilibrium.

[sameer]

There was FQXi Conference in 2023. Why did no one tell me

[Thomas-gk]

Slippery slope to superdeterminism? What´s wrong about superdeterminism? Is it a swearword in mainstream QM already?