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1.61803
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Message 31 of 44 (738824)
10-16-2014 10:12 AM
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10-16-2014 7:21 AM


Re: @$%8 happens
Hello Prototypical,
Prototypical writes:
I would say that things acting without cause would be a good example of supernatural behavior.
I believe that at some point in the hierarchy of existence there is a breakdown in physics as we know it. It is not only unknowable, but unbelievable too. It starts sounding ridiculous.

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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Son Goku
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Message 32 of 44 (739017)
10-19-2014 3:29 PM


Quantum Randomness
To cut a very long story short, it has been proven that the randomness in quantum mechanics cannot be the result of a lack of information (the same way the randomness in a dice roll can) or missing information about a deeper theory, unless that deeper theory obeys all of the following:
(a) Is non-local, that is allows signals to be sent faster than light and back in time. So that the past, present and future of the universe communicate with each other. So every particle is in contact with its own past and future self in addition to the pasts and futures of every other particle.
(b) Every particle carries an infinite amount of information (essentially the data concerning the communications above)
(c) The world is contextual. That is there is no universal quantities like "Energy", only "Energy in my lab in Singapore given that I ate lunch at 14:05 yesterday", which is a different physical quantity from "Energy in my lab in Singapore given that I ate lunch at 14:06 yesterday".
So either the world is genuinely random (i.e. subatomic events have no cause, no physical mechanism which results in their occurrence, so that let us say there is no answer to the question "Why did that atom decay?") or (a),(b) and (c) above are true.
(a) comes from Bell's theorem.
(b) from Hardy's ontological excess baggage theorem.
(c) from the Kochen-Specker theorem.

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NoNukes
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Message 33 of 44 (739055)
10-19-2014 6:37 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by Dr Adequate
10-14-2014 4:04 PM


Re: Quantum Randomness?
Compared to the Copenhagen Interpretation, his take on things seems downright mundane.
The problem is that non-locality is not even remotely mundane. And on top of that, you still cannot use Bohm's interpretation to predict when a nucleus will decay.
I'll agree that we're just shifting around weirdness, but the resulting weirdness from Bohm's interpretation is still right in your face. I don't see any way to say that it is less weird than Copenhagen.

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Message 34 of 44 (739075)
10-19-2014 11:16 PM
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10-19-2014 6:37 PM


Re: Quantum Randomness?
And on top of that, you still cannot use Bohm's interpretation to predict when a nucleus will decay.
Something the Bohm Interpretation has in common with everything else.
The problem is that non-locality is not even remotely mundane.
I said compared to the Copenhagen Interpretation it's mundane. And it is. Compared to the Copenhagen Interpretation, everything's mundane.
Meh.

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NoNukes
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Message 35 of 44 (739078)
10-20-2014 1:56 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by Dr Adequate
10-19-2014 11:16 PM


Re: Quantum Randomness?
I said compared to the Copenhagen Interpretation it's mundane
I understood your comparison and I responded to it as you stated it.
I suppose this is a matter of opinion. But given the comments about non-locality put forward by Son Goku, I simply cannot see any particular weird-avoidance advantage for the Bohm Interpretation.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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Dogmafood
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Message 36 of 44 (739144)
10-20-2014 6:21 PM
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10-19-2014 3:29 PM


Re: Quantum Randomness
To cut a very long story short, ...
What we need is an introduction to quantum pyhysics thread!

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Message 37 of 44 (739155)
10-21-2014 7:28 AM
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10-20-2014 6:21 PM


Re: Quantum Randomness
What we need is an introduction to quantum pyhysics thread!
Something like the Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. thread perhaps ...
Edited by RAZD, : ...

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by our ability to understand
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Message 38 of 44 (739156)
10-21-2014 8:26 AM
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10-21-2014 7:28 AM


Re: Quantum Randomness
Yeah kinda like that but with more chapters.

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Message 39 of 44 (739173)
10-21-2014 10:58 AM
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10-21-2014 8:26 AM


Re: Quantum Randomness
yeah, we need a chap ter fill it out a bit

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Message 40 of 44 (739174)
10-21-2014 11:40 AM
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10-21-2014 10:58 AM


Re: Quantum Randomness
What happened to the unlike button? Now, when I really need it?

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Son Goku
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Message 41 of 44 (739183)
10-21-2014 12:59 PM
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10-21-2014 10:58 AM


Re: Quantum Randomness
Jaysus! We need this one put in deep quarantine!

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1.61803
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Message 42 of 44 (739196)
10-21-2014 2:42 PM
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10-21-2014 10:58 AM


Re: Quantum Randomness
Ugh.

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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Message 43 of 44 (739220)
10-21-2014 7:06 PM
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10-21-2014 10:58 AM


Re: Quantum Randomness
Excellent, RAZD!
Hip Hip Hooray!
No "unlike", no quarantine, no face-palm! Ignore them.
You da man!
HOOT HOOT HOOT HOOT!

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Message 44 of 44 (739222)
10-21-2014 7:46 PM
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10-21-2014 10:58 AM


Re: Quantum Randomness
If only we could calculate the probability that someone would spontaneously arrive, without motive, and produce such a thing then we could know for certain that we can't be sure.

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