RE: Photons and determinism, part 2
March 1, 2015 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 1, 2015 at 9:13 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 1, 2015 at 9:00 pm)Surgenator Wrote: First off, "not subject to causal influences" is violation of the other postulate of relativity, i.e. the physics laws remain the same independent of the inertial reference frame.?
Second, you're giving more weight to the photon's reference frame than any other one. If you want relativity to apply, the reference frame should NOT matter. The fact that I can create a casual influence in my frame, means that a casual influence has to exist in the photon reference frame.
In our reference frame, the photon ALSO hits my eye. The difference is that the photon's timelessness means that it could not have been otherwise.
Quote:Okay. Go ahead and place all the objects in the universe in the same positions, and arrange for a photon to leave a sun 1,000 light years away, and make sure that the exact same emitting body is pointed at the exact same eye. I eagerly await your results.Quote:No. Determinism requires that one initial condition can only lead to one result.Repeating the experiment should not change the results. So the same initial conditions lead to the same results in a deterministic system.