On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Bruno Marchal <[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. > Yes the Schrodinger Wave Equation (SWE) is deterministic but that doesn't matter because it describes nothing observable in the universe. To figure out if a electron will be at point X you've got to square the value of the SWE at point X , and then all you get is a probability not a certainty. To make matters worse the SWE uses imaginary numbers so 2 very different complex numbers provided by Schrodinger can produce identical probabilities after squaring. If 2 different things can produce identical results then things are not deterministic, and if those results are probabilities not certainties then things are even less deterministic. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
