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>From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
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Subject: Re: Hypothesis: I am a Transducer (Formerly "Virtual Grounding")
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Date: 6 Jun 92 17:51:26 GMT
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In article <1992Jun4.142045.1608@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com (Daryl McCullough) writes:
>holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:
>
>>What is necessary to make progress is to figure out why information
>>about particles (the actual reality) is restricted in this way.
>>This is hard work; we will make no progress in this direction as
>>long as we continue to take the easy course of treating
>>the waves as an independent physical reality (an attractive
>>explanation which probably should have been avoided).
>
>Once again, I disagree strongly. There is no reason (that I know of)
>to doubt that waves are part of physical reality. The so-called
>"collapse of the wave function" tends to make people think of the
>parallel with ordinary probability: When we flip a coin in the dark,
>we can describe the situation as "Heads, with 50% probability, and
>tails, with 50% probability." However, when we turn on the light,
>the coin seems to "collapse" into a define state, either heads or
>tails. Obviously, in this case, there really is no collapse; the
>coin was either heads or tails before we turned on the light, we
>just didn't know which.


This argument is a bogus. Light seems to be the reason why one cannot say 
much about an electron :-)


Philip Santas

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