Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 23:02:57 +0100 From: Colin Wight <Colin.Wight-AT-aber.ac.uk> Subject: Re: BHA: quantumnese Hi Louis, > >Re quantum phenomena. Consider a closed system (by some definition of >closure or other). If quantum phenomena were to exist within that system, >then event regularity would be lost. Not necessarily, quantum phenomena do exist in most systems surely? After all if not where do they exist? Moreover, as you say: If quantum phenomena are >truly random, there is in principle no way to predict the outcome. Well this is a big *if*, moreover quantum phenomena aren't random so much as probabilistic. In other words, although the world would be technically open >at a microscopic level, Well this isn't strictly speaking true is it? And it relates to the issue of closure. After all the isolation of an EPR photon constitutes closure - it must or the EPR photon couldn't be isolated and then you couldn't link them - but there are no regularities. And actually, if you think about it, experiments don't always aim to produce event regularities but rather isolate a mechanism (e.g. genes) so that they can be studied in isolation; this is fundamental to quantum phenomena. Cheers, ============================================ Dr. Colin Wight Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystwyth Wales SY23 3DA Tel: (01970) 621769 --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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