----- Original Message ----- From: "Flammarion" <peterdjo...@yahoo.com> To: "Everything List" <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:17 AM Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology
> > > > On 16 Sep, 21:42, "m.a." <marty...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Flammarion" <peterdjo...@yahoo.com> >> To: "Everything List" <everything-list@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:25 AM >> Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology >> >> > On 16 Sep, 15:51, "m.a." <marty...@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> >> the ocean of virtual particles which may give >> >> rise to all "real" particles exists somewhere between matter and >> >> thought. >> >> > I see no reason to believe that. >> >> I would be most interested in your view of vacuum fluctuations of virtual >> particles. > > Why would they differ from what he WP article says? Brent Meeker's interpretation of the WP article seems to agree with my description. " Most physicists (who bother to think about it) don't regard the virtual particles as 'real' because they are, by construction, not observable. They are just a calculational device." From post dated 16 Sept. 15:51 " > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---