Great book!
"The Copenhagen interpretation asks us to accept quantum mechanics pragmatically. (Bumper-sticker summary of pragmatism: "If it works, it's true.") "When physicists want to avoid dealing with philosophy, and for most of us that's almost all the time, we tacitly accept the Copenhagen interpretation. Physicists tend to be pragmatists. Even though we speak of microscopic objects as real marbles, strickly speaking, we analyze and report on the behavior of our laboratory apparatus. The big things present no paradox; they never need be considered to be in superposition states. "The properties of microscopic objects are _inferred_ from the behavior of our apparatus. Nevertheless, we talk of microscopic objects, visualize them, and calculate with models of them as if they were a real as little green marbles. But if confronted with paradox, we retreat to the Copenhagen interpretation that microscopic objects are just theories. They should accurately explain the sensible behavior of our macroscopic equipment, but microscopic objects themselves need not "make sense." >>>> (Rosenblum & Kuttner,'Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness', >>>> pp.109-110,2006) ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
