Re: M-TH: Idealist discussion of quantum theory

2000-01-26 Thread J.WALKER
Chris, What exactly is you concern? I have only briefly glanced through the article and the review a few pages earlier. Does your possible objection lie in the fact that the experiment would appear to bolster Schrodinger's thought experiment (I am personally rather hostile to thought experime

M-TH: Idealist discussion of quantum theory

2000-01-24 Thread Chris Burford
This abstract from the 20 Jan 00 edition of Nature suggests there is an undialectical idealism in the discussion of quantum theory in the form of stories about "Schrödinger's cat". I am quoting it for the first three sentences. While chaos theory is modelled in closed systems it does not apply