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- From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - BASS JEALOUS AND INSECURE-ABIAN VALIDATED
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:30:13 GMT
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- In article <1ggssaINN9s2@gap.caltech.edu> rickert@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Warren Rickert) writes:
- >In <Bz81F4.Lqt@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
-
- >>A similar problem exists for physicists who consider light to be a wave (or
- >>a wave and something else too). Waving is something an entity does, not a
- >>thing in itself. There can no more be a wave traveling through space than
- >>there can be a room with some "jumping" going on outside of any entities which
- >>are doing the jumping.
-
- >>I think these kinds of problems both arise from physicists getting too tied up
- >>with their equations to remember that they apply to things in the real world.
-
- >The ability of light to behave as a wave, and as a particle, have
- >both been able to lead to concrete predictions about real world experiments,
- >and provided correct results.
-
- I don't think you understand my point here. I have plenty of problems with the
- wave-particle duality theories (and the ludicrous conclusions people try
- to draw from them), but that is not what I am complaining about here.
- A wave is a property of an entity, like redness, mass, or length. Properties
- cannot exist independent of entites which posess them. To say that there are
- properties without entities which posess them undercuts some of the
- necessary premises of all knowledge (ie. that it is ABOUT something).
-
- >The ability to predict experimental behaviour correctly is the real
- >test of a theory, not whether or not it can be visualized.
-
- I am not claiming that such theories are false because they cannot be
- visualized. I am claiming they are false because they are irrational.
-
- --Brian
-