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- From: paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Computability of the universe
- Message-ID: <273@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 16:48:47 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.131437.15148@sei.cmu.edu> <rwallace.716144999@unix1.tcd.ie> <1992Sep11.222036.7483@galois.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep11.222036.7483@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
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- > ... Note that the recursivity of the time evolution of the
- > wavefunction does NOT contradict the fact that quantum mechanical
- > observations can be random, hence not computable. ...
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- They can be random, but no one knows if they are. That this
- would make them not computable is all the more reason to doubt
- that they are random.
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- Paul Budnik
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