On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 12:17:45 PM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote:
> On Monday, April 18, 2022 at 12:06:04 PM UTC-6 meeke...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> >> On 4/18/2022 5:35 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> But my main point is that acausality is tantamount to unintelligible. >>> IMO, there's a huge difference between being unable to perfectly predict >>> the time evolution of a system, and it being uncaused. AG >>> >>> >>> Is there? Even if the unpredicitability is in-principle? What is the >>> huge difference? >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> So what, in your view, bugged AE about probability in QM? AG >> >> >> I asked you first. >> >> Brent >> > > IIRC, you asked what was bugging ME, not AE. My guess is that he thought > acausality violated locality and/or realism. For example, the Pilot Wave > theory assumes each particle has a definite position and momentum. It > doesn't violate the HUP because the HUP simply limits what we can measure. > AG > Or maybe AE objected to the Copenhagen view that properties don't exist prior to measurement. This would certainly be acausal since all processes take finite time intervals to occur, which Copenhagen implicitly denies. AG -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e764522b-bc90-4cf1-9f68-25b506a68662n%40googlegroups.com.
