RE: Who throws the dice for you?
April 11, 2014 at 5:59 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 6:05 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 11, 2014 at 5:50 pm)Heywood Wrote: Chuck, do you tell the string theorists not to believe extra dimensions or other physicists not to believe in multiple universe?
I think its become very difficult to construct a coherent world view with out employing the need for elements of reality to exists outside the observable.
No, string theorists hypothesize there to be extra dimensions. This means they propose how these dimensions can in principle be detected so the hypothesis can eventually be distinguished using observation from a fart in the wind.
A world view is only coherent if it coheres to what can be observed. If it is difficult to construct a coherent world view then work harder and observe more. It does not do to usurp observation with wishthinking.
(April 11, 2014 at 5:50 pm)Heywood Wrote:(April 11, 2014 at 5:27 pm)Chuck Wrote: Then your experience is irrelevent. Appending it to description of quantum event is at best a non sequitar, at worst a conscious duplicity.
Randomness is not a consequence of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics doesn't say what randomness is.
If you don't think I should rely on my personal experience to determine what randomness is you need to give me something else.
No. It is okay to say, and it is possible to determine, known principles don't apply, without having determined what principles do apply.
The local mechanistic simulation of randomness do not appear to apply to quantum uncertainty. We don't know what applies. As yet we can not exclude the possibility that randomness is a fundamental property without deeper mechanism. It so happens this randomness disappears statistically on any scale we were evolved to detect, therefore we are lacking in basic circuitry to grasp this intuitively and must bow to best fit math solutions.