(November 10, 2013 at 12:41 am)Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote:(November 9, 2013 at 11:15 pm)Jesus is Lord Wrote: So what is the quantum foam doing here?
See Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle. It can't not be there.
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Now we're getting somewhere. Now we're talking about the invisible principles upholding reality - in this case, you are invoking "Heisnberg's Uncertainty Principle." (Someone else might invoke some other theoretical construct.) You are essentially declaring that there is an invisible operating system which gives rise to that which (eventually) becomes visible, measurable, palpable.
Now - why should there be this principle? Why should there be this invisible superstructure underwriting reality?
What's Heisenberg doing there?
If you back up far enough, no matter what view of the universe you subscribe to, you end up with an invisible, characteristically mathematical superstructure upholding the universe.