Author: Theo van der Storm
Date: 14:18:10 03/05/05
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On March 04, 2005 at 10:15:35, Ingo Althofer wrote: >Dear Theo, > >thanks for your nice posting, but ... > >> Subject: Ein Stein Wuerfelt nicht (One stone doesn't throw dice) >> Posted by Theo van der Storm (Profile) on March 03, 2005 at 16:22:45: >> ... >Until here, everything is fine. (Perhaps the translation of the >game's title to English would be a bit more precise by writing >"A single stone does not throw dice".) > >But now you write something that cries for a revenge ;-) > >> By the way, I discarded Ingo Althöfer's strategic advice >> - as explained by Gerd and others - right away and played my own strategy. > >You must have had a bandwaggon full of luck with the dice. >(The same had Dan Wulff in Paderborn against me...) quoting relevant text with Einstein, Dice, Bandwagon, God. http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v03/0200.html (Date: Mon, 3 Jul 89 03:24 EDT From: John McDaid <MCDAID@NYUACF>) "Quantum theories have a body of experimental support. In point of fact, the objection which Einstein (along with Podolsky and Rosen) proposed to quantum mechanics is what prompted Bohr to postulate indeterminacy as a "law of nature," in that the macroworld (us) could only make probabilistic assertions about the quantum. According to this interpretation, there is no "disturbance," rather, until the point of measurement, there is only a wave function. We have, finally, to give up our anthropocentric notion that reality on the quantum level must be just like the world we grew up in so we can understand it. In response to Einstein's "Der Herrgott Würfelt Nicht," Stephen Hawkings has said, "Not only does God play at dice, but sometimes He throws them where you can't see them." I am most at a loss, I must confess, when to answer his question of why humanists jump on the "bandwagon" of quantum mechanics, Richmond finds that we are, at bottom, victims of a weak-minded subjectivist self deception. The logical extension of Indeterminacy is not a Panglossian "best of all possible worlds," but rather a tough-minded intellectual honesty which -- like Popper -- is constantly attempting refine its approximations. Teachers are not scientists, poking quanta of information into the heads of students. I would hope that by now, the model of the college classroom would be one of a holistic system in which the "students" and "professor" are cooperating in the enterprise of discovery." Theo
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