Actually, my contention was that inadequate machinery might be producing heisenbergs uncertainity principle? Now that I re-read the comments I should be expanding the question to Lewis's modal realism, known now as Everetts MWI.
Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -----Original Message----- From: Russell Standish <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 07:34 PM Subject: Re: A riddle for John Clark <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_7060f6ae-53de-4555-95e4-2b14ab57adc8" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>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 > ><<a > >href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> > > 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 <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a> University of New South Wales <a href="http://www.hpcoders.com.au"; target="_blank">http://www.hpcoders.com.au</a> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>. Visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list"; target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list</a>. For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout"; target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>. </tt></pre> </div> <!-- end of AOLMsgPart_1_7060f6ae-53de-4555-95e4-2b14ab57adc8 --> -- 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.
