Re: [asa] Spooky Action At A Distance: Still Spooky

Here's how I sort of understood it and Rich I think you told me I was sort
of on track:

Realism: stuff really exists, whether anyone is there to observe it or not.

Paper in nature: maybe stuff doesn't actually exist until someone is there
to observe it. Or maybe it does. Depends on who you ask (or who's
looking).

Somehat relevant aside: In a deposition in a patent case, I once asked an
MIT physics professor, under oath, "if a tree falls in the forest, and no
one is there to hear it, does it make a sound." His answer, of course: "it
depends."

On 4/19/07, Rich Blinne <rich.blinne@gmail.com> wrote:
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> OK. This is only partially tongue in cheek.
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> Previous conventional wisdom: Quantum physics is mostly unintuitive.
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> Paper in Nature: Skip the mostly.
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> On 4/19/07, Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Oh, goodie, I'm not alone!
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> > Michael
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christine Smith" < christine_mb_smith@yahoo.com>
> > To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: [asa] Spooky Action At A Distance: Still Spooky
> >
> >
> > Um, can someone please translate this into English?? I
> > never could quite grasp the idea of quantam
> > mechanics...
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Christine
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Received on Thu Apr 19 20:36:40 2007