Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Alan Grayson
On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 1:45:06 AM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote: > > > On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 6:36:53 AM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote: > >> On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 12:52:26 AM UTC-7 Bruce wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 5:57 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >>>

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Bruce Kellett
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 5:39 AM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > You suspected right, I am asking a more basic question about self-sampling > and the validity of probabilities when a version of the observer sees all > possible outcomes. > There is a problem here -- or maybe it is just careless

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Lawrence Crowell
The equation I derived is a geodesic deviation equation! LC On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 1:19:13 PM UTC-6 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 2:00 PM Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > > There is a correspondence between the geodesic deviation equation and >> the

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 2:00 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a correspondence between the geodesic deviation equation and the > Schrodinger equation. > Wouldn't geodesic deviation be more relevant when dealing with gravity and General Relativity than

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 8:43:05 AM UTC-6 johnk...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:52 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > *There are many 1p views* >> > > Yes. > > > *and for each the probability of that particular observation is one* >> > > Yes, AFTER Bruce Kellett has

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 21:51, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:49 PM Stathis Papaioannou > wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 13:29, Bruce Kellett >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:45 PM Stathis Papaioannou >>> wrote: >>> From what I understand of your

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 9:29 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: >* t**his is still inconsistent with the Schrodinger equation because* [blah > blah] The Schrodinger Equation is not holy writ, but the Born Rule is because it has been shown over and over again to work. The Schrodinger Equation Is useful

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 5:15 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> Think of it like this: take a randomly shuffled deck of cards and hand > one card from the deck to each of 52 people. The probability that one of > the people will get the 3-of-Spades is one. * If Many Worlds is correct then the

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:52 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: > *There are many 1p views* > Yes. > *and for each the probability of that particular observation is one* > Yes, AFTER Bruce Kellett has observed that the electron went left rather than right then the probability the electron had gone left

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 22 Dec 2020, at 05:03, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > Science doesn't deal in proofs, only in evidence. And the reality it deals > with is that which can be tested...i.e. is not "underlyingā€¯. I sort of agree. To believe in an underlying reality, or in a fundamental

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 21 Dec 2020, at 17:25, Lawrence Crowell > wrote: > > Bell's theorem and the Kochen-Specker theorem are indications of an > irreducible randomness to measurement outcomes in QM. That is clear for me when you assume one and only one physical universe, or one measurement outcome. It is

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Bruce Kellett
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:49 PM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 13:29, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:45 PM Stathis Papaioannou >> wrote: >> >>> >>> From what I understand of your position, you would claim that the 1 in >>> 10^100 copy will screw up

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 13:29, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:45 PM Stathis Papaioannou > wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 10:58, Bruce Kellett >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:45 AM Stathis Papaioannou >>> wrote: >>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 09:15, Bruce

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
AG asked: does randomness imply no-FTL-signaling? Let me ask: does determinism imply FTL-signaling? A is one of the two wings of a Bell apparatus i is the observable to be measured in A x is the possible value of i B is the other wing of a Bell apparatus j is the observable to be measured in B y

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Alan Grayson
If micro reality is irreducibly random, why isn't it appropriate to refer to it as the "underlying reality"? You seem to be splitting hairs to no avail. AG On Monday, December 21, 2020 at 9:27:20 PM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote: > Bullshit; Counterexample; the derivation of the LT from the

Re: Irreducible randomness in QM

2020-12-23 Thread Alan Grayson
On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 6:36:53 AM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote: > On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 12:52:26 AM UTC-7 Bruce wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 5:57 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >> everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> On 12/19/2020 10:38 PM, Bruce Kellett