RE: Is the statement "Claims demand evidence" always true?
January 20, 2017 at 7:14 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2017 at 7:15 am by bennyboy.)
(January 20, 2017 at 6:38 am)Khemikal Wrote: Close enough, sure. Ask a different question, get a different answer.Yes, and I've read that even sets of macro objects, like say a few quadrillion office chairs, if treated properly, will also do so, though of that I'm pretty dubious.
You know photons aren't unique, in that? They're not an outlier. Other elementary particles, atoms, even molecules exhibit wave particle duality.
Quote:As to your difficulty in making sense of something having the properties of both simultaneously, are you familiar with Bohmian mechanics?I don't have a problem with it, because I view truth values in this case context-dependent.
Quote: It's one example of a set of quantum theories that either have no trouble resolving the apparent paradox..or simply do not see or describe any such paradox at all. I don't mention it to take a side, or to declare one interpretation the right interpretation, only to bring to your attention that others have made sense of what does not make sense to you, right or wrong.I've often argued against science, at least as described by materlialists like you. But in this case, I'd say that many of the new contexts through which we view our experiences, could only come about through scientific theorization and experimentation. While duality/ambiguity have been around for thousands of years, science has really given us tools to play with them.