On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 04:51:15PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 30 Jun 2015, at 05:25, John Clark wrote: > > >On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List > ><[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Perhaps determinism arrives in ways we cannot yet measure, but > >can only speculate about? > > > >As I said, we know from experiment that at least one of the 3 > >MUST be wrong, realism determinism or locality. To my mind the > >loss of determinism would be FAR less disturbing than the loss of > >either of the other two, but of course the universe may have other > >ideas. > > > What do you mean by "realism"? >
I assume he is referring to the Bell theorem. Realism, in this context, means something like particles having a well defined state at all times, ie having hidden variables, essentially. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
