On 30 Dec 2009, at 05:59, Colin Hales wrote: > > > Jason Resch wrote: >> Described in this article: >> http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=2617 >> >> "This summation of all paths, proposed in the 1960s by physicist >> Richard Feynman and others, is the only way to explain some of the >> bizarre properties of quantum particles, such as their apparent >> ability to be in two places at once. The key point is that not all >> paths contribute equally to the photon's behaviour: the straight-line >> trajectory dominates over the indirect ones. >> >> Hertog argues that the same must be true of the path through time >> that >> took the Universe into its current state. We must regard it as a sum >> over all possible histories." >> >> > > So we "must", must we?
Assuming mechanism, I don't see how we can avoid this. > > A mathematical construction by humans, happens to cohere to some > extent > with reality. > A mere description. > > A million other descriptions, also constructed by humans, could be as > predictive of how the universe appears. > > What extra belief system must exist in order that someone conclude > that > we 'must' chose a "sum of all histories" as "the" story? Why is the > universe compelled to be such a thing? Well, then it is also the simple explanation of the behavior of particles in nature. Something which, in my opinion, confirms the statistics on computations which is forced by digital mechanism. > > Rhetorical question...don't answer. Just think. Oops! > > happy new year, everythingers. Happy new year Colin, Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@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.
