Re: Radioactive Decay States

2018-07-16 Thread agrayson2000
On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 7:48:02 AM UTC-6, scerir wrote: > > --- SCERIR; IN YOU OWN WORDS; WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE AND WHY? AG > > Is the state ψ (i.e. a superposition state) a physically object or is it > an abstract entity that merely provides information about the system? > *We know for sur

Re: Radioactive Decay States

2018-07-16 Thread agrayson2000
On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 7:48:02 AM UTC-6, scerir wrote: > > --- SCERIR; IN YOU OWN WORDS; WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE AND WHY? AG > > Is the state ψ (i.e. a superposition state) a physically object or is it > an abstract entity that merely provides information about the system? > *It just gives i

Re: Radioactive Decay States

2018-07-16 Thread agrayson2000
On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 8:30:58 AM UTC-6, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 13 Jul 2018, at 01:55, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 2:16:24 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 4:42:44 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>>

Re: Bootstrapping Reality: The inconsistency of nothing

2018-07-16 Thread Brent Meeker
On 7/16/2018 8:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: I would like to think that this were the case, but you keep coming up with irrelevancies that contradict the straightforward account of these phenomena. If you forget about the metaphysics and just concentrate on Alice and Bob making real measurem

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

2018-07-16 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > *​>​Suppose Abby the guinea pig wants to travel long distance, say from > Earth to Mars. On Earth she enters the scanner which scans her body and > brain cells in great detail at an instant of time, down to all molecular > details that are fu

Re: Bootstrapping Reality: The inconsistency of nothing

2018-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 16 Jul 2018, at 14:15, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > From: Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> >> >>> On 16 Jul 2018, at 03:57, Bruce Kellett >> > wrote: >>> >>> Other directions are irrelevant to the measurement. The state is not in a >>> superposition

Re: Radioactive Decay States

2018-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 15 Jul 2018, at 15:48, 'scerir' via Everything List > wrote: > > --- SCERIR; IN YOU OWN WORDS; WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE AND WHY? AG > > Is the state ψ (i.e. a superposition state) a physically object or is it an > abstract entity that merely provides information about the system? > > This

Re: Radioactive Decay States

2018-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 13 Jul 2018, at 01:55, agrayson2...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 2:16:24 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 4:42:44 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > On 7/10/2018 3:01 PM, agrays...@gmail.com <> wrote: >> IIRC, the above quote

Re: Bootstrapping Reality: The inconsistency of nothing

2018-07-16 Thread Bruce Kellett
From: *Bruno Marchal* mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> On 16 Jul 2018, at 03:57, Bruce Kellett > wrote: Other directions are irrelevant to the measurement. The state is not in a superposition of eigenvectors of every possible orientation. After the measurement is

Re: Bootstrapping Reality: The inconsistency of nothing

2018-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 16 Jul 2018, at 03:57, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > From: Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> >>> On 12 Jul 2018, at 14:09, Bruce Kellett >> > wrote: >>> >>> From: Bruno Marchal mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be> > On 12 Jul 2018, at 04:04, Bruce Kellett