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- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles)
- Subject: Re: QM non-causal?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.230140.25299@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov25.003650.23122@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> <1992Dec10.205759.9915@newshost.lanl.gov> <432@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:01:40 GMT
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- In article <432@mtnmath.UUCP>, paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
- |> [...]
- |> Any one whe has read many of my postings is well aware that I am more
- |> than willing to question established ideas if I think there is a *serious*
- |> reason for doing so. [...]
-
- I think that anytime an well accepted concept is on the rocks
- is a time for serious questioning of all the other well established
- concepts that are involved. I think it's just as likely that the
- mathematical operation of *multiplication* is inapplicable to the
- QM context as it is that locality is violated. I have no reason
- accept either over the other. *Both* may be wrong. As could any
- number of other _very_ fundamental assumptions. What specific reasons
- (other than it's what everyone else is doing) do you claim that Bell's
- results disprove locality instead of disproving other assumptions?
-
- |> [...] Bell's result is disturbing. [...]
-
- Yep, it is. It means that *something* about our fundamental concepts
- is wrong. It proves to have little to say about *what* is wrong.
-
- |> [...] It is clear to me that
- |> the first thing to question is the assumption that the wave function
- |> changes instantaneously. [...]
-
- This doesn't trouble me at all - since I believe the wavefunction to
- be an abstraction it changes whenever the abstract situation does.
- Abstractions can change as quickly as they like.
-
- --
- J. Giles
-