On 08 Dec 2013, at 19:41, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Jason Resch <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> Determinism is far from "well established".
> It's a basic assumption in almost every scientific theory.
In the most important theory in physics, Quantum Mechanics, no such
assumption is made, and despite a century of trying no experiment
has ever been performed that even hinted such a deterministic
assumption should be added in.
What?
Everett = SWE. The wave evolves deterministically.
It was only when confronted to the explosion of realities that QM
entails that physicists admitted a (unintelligible) wave reduction
which introduced indeterminism in the picture, and Einstein never
bought it at the start.
I bought it, but that was an error of youth, not helped by the
textbook which dare to add the collapse as an axiom.
Everett is just a coming back to the old but venerable tenant of
physics: 3p determinacy. Everett indeterminacy is typically 1p
indeterminacies.
It is not that QM assumes determinacy, it is that Everett shows we
don't need to assume indeterminacy (which for a logician is a much
more stronger assumption, even insanity for Einstein).
Somehow Everett shows that Einstein was constantly right on QM. His
critics was on QM+collapse, if you look close.
Bruno
John K Clark
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