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- From: prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths)
- Subject: Re: Uncertainty Principle [T.Bollinger => LONG]
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.001518.525@prim>
- Organization: Primitive Software Ltd.
- References: <1992Sep4.170847.235@prim> <1992Sep5.071519.16554@asl.dl.nec.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:15:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep5.071519.16554@asl.dl.nec.com> terry@aslws01.asl.dl.nec.com (Terry Bollinger) writes:
- >
- >Dr. Richard Feynman was NOT a hidden parameter type, and the recent results
- >of experiments (e.g., Aspect) designed to test whether hidden variable might
- >lurk at the heart of QM seem to indicate that the answere is NO -- you cannot
- >do such things without violating both the rules of QM and explicitly observed
- >behavior in such experiments.
-
- Can you (hopefully without getting too technical!) explain what is meant by
- "hidden variables"? I have seen it mentioned many times, but without a
- precise definition of the class of theories it represents.
-
- I don't think it's enough to just accept QM the way it is. It seems to have
- horrible flaws (the collapse of the wave function when "observed", whatever
- "observed" means) and is probably a bad model. There is surely room for a
- better theory that explains our observations but without quite so much
- wierdness.
-
- What class of theories does "hidden variables" refer to?
-
- Dave Griffiths
-