Author: José Carlos
Date: 16:15:05 08/06/02
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On August 06, 2002 at 18:34:12, Sune Fischer wrote: >On August 06, 2002 at 17:19:38, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On August 06, 2002 at 15:15:08, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >> >>>PS: Anyway, that is not so true because it is impossible to know all the >>>variables without altered them. >> >>He was speaking from a purely theoretical point of view of course, since it's >>impossible to measure every possible variable, and even if it were, it would >>alter some of them as you said. However, that doesn't make it false in theory. >> >>Russell > >Yes it does actually. Heisenbergs uncertainty principle is a fundamental law, >quantum theory doesn't work without it. >To assume you could know all variables with infinite precision would be an >invalid assumption, _even_ as a thought experiment. > >So in deep down nothing is determanistic, but on our scale the world acts >differently and we can for the most part completely forget about this principle. >It plays no role in the flipping of a coin, for instance. > >-S. ...If you accept quantum mechanics as "totally correct". Well, I don't, but that's way off topic. The only absolute truth we can know is that we can't know any absolute truth... José C.
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