From: billc@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu (Morbius)
Newsgroups: alt.atheism,alt.christnet.hypocracy,alt.recovery.catholicism,alt.recovery.religion
Subject: Re: Why *I* am a Christian (Part 1)
Date: 9 Nov 1994 04:42:28 GMT
Organization: Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
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In article <dcon-0811941008350001@128.96.71.70> dcon@cc.bellcore.com (Dan Connolly) writes:
>I realize that quantum physics presents a challenge to causality.  It also
>presents a challenge to many of those things we have held dear for
>thousands of years.  Observer created reality, many worlds, reverse
>causality, etc., are hard to "fit" in with the world we see every day.

Why should all of reality have to conform to that very limited slice of
reality that "we see every day". There are two problems with your view:
First, it is prejudiced in the sense that you expect the universe at
all scales, both very large and very small, to work the same as at
the human scale. Second, you appear to be arguing from ignorance:
Because you cannot understand how quantum mechanics "fits" in with
the macroscopic world, you reject it.   


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>common complaint I hear from my physicist friends is that quantum
>mechanics is not "simple" enough, and imply that it is not complete.  

Physicists have been complaining about quantum mechanics for almost 
seventy years. So what? 


>As to evident, we could argue all day about what is or isn't evident.  I
>could argue that "space" is the evident cause of quantum events.  You may
>disagree.  But are you prepared for the consequences of throwing out
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>causality?  
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You overlook the very nasty consequences of keeping causality at the
quantum level, especially non-locality.


>Why does the rest of the world appear causal, but not quantum
>events?  

Your prejudice is showing again.


>         I look forward to more discoveries on the "inner" frontier.

I look forward to my advisor getting his grants renewed. It will keep
me off the streets, and who knows, we may discover a thing or two. ;^}



-Morbius