(January 8, 2009 at 8:44 pm)DD_8630 Wrote:True. That's why I introduced the Casimir effect in the first place. There are certain random type events, like the virtual pair creation that causes the Casimir effect. What I meant is that QM didn't do away with causality for a wide range of event types. For nuclear fission, star formation, chemical processes and many other event types, physical causality is an essential part of the current picture on physics.(January 8, 2009 at 6:51 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: In QM also every observed event has a precursor which causes it.That's not entirely true: quantum tunnelling (inc. radioactive decay), vacuum energy, etc, do not have precursor events. They are truly spontaneous.
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0