On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 , meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bell's theorem, as Bell made clear, allows realism and locality if the >> laws of physics operate in a time symmetric manner. All the known laws of >> physics do, apart from the mechanism underlying neutral kaon decay. Hence >> it is likely that Bell's theorem doesn't require quantum mystical nonlocal >> nonreal gobbledegook, it just means accepting something we already strongly >> suspect to be true (with one minor exception). >> > > > That was Vic Stenger's solution to the interpretation of QM, the > realized outcome was determined by retro-causality from the future.
As I said, the violation of Bell's inequality tells us that at least one of the following must be untrue, realism, locality or determinism. Retro-causality would be consistent with observation because it is not local. Everett's Many Worlds is deterministic but it is also consistent with observation because other universes are about as non-local as you can get, and it's not realistic either. Realism says that before you open the box Schrodinger's cat is in one and only one state (either dead or alive but not both) you just don't know which one, but Everett says the cat was in both states. So we know for sure that Einstein's idea that thing are realistic local and deterministic can't be correct, but Everett could be right. Retro-causality might be true too although Everett doesn't need it. 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/d/optout.
