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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Re: Baez to Ramsay
- Message-ID: <BxoqxH.66r@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:58:28 GMT
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- John Baez you are abdicating your responsibility for intellectual honesty.
- Yes,I am persistent the way Bohr was persistent. I have answered every
- objection that Ramsay made. I thibnk our major point of disagreement is
- over whether |a,e,+> is orthogonal or parallel to |a,o,->. Ramsay saus
- orthogonal and I say parallel. I say paralle for physical reasons - they
- represent same state of polarization. Ramsay says orthogonal because he
- thinks falsely that unitarity requires it.
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- No there is room for honest debate here. It is smug , arrogant, and foolish
- of you to think that the foundations of quantum mechanics, especially the
- informal language of how to properly connect abstract formalism to physical
- operations, is so pat and well understood. All the great masters warn us
- not to fall into the hubris that you so blatantly display - also some of
- the others.
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- In any case I hope the inquisitors - the orthodox priests of the Grand
- Illusion that there even is "an orthodox" or "standard" quantum mechanics
- will not succeed in supressing freedom on thought. And I hope the others
- out there keep an independent frame of mind and not fall into line with
- the rest of the sheep of academe. Remember "What do you care what other
- people think?"
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