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  1. PolyHedral

    Science vs God.

    The former leads into the latter.
  2. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    That's the second time you've said that and I still don't know what you mean. Why not? We can easily see the quantum effects behind the original interferometer experiment even though there's nothing odd going on there in terms of wavefunctions collapsing or what have you. Also, the fact that...
  3. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    The observer can't perceive themselves as existing in a superposition, that'd be silly. And there's nothing inconsistent about this if you abandon all notion of "particle" and "wave" and say, "wibbly-wobbly quantum-y thing." (Doesn't your detector go ding when there's stuff? :p)...
  4. PolyHedral

    Where exactly is God?

    That doesn't sound very much like a circle. :p
  5. PolyHedral

    Demystifying Quantum Physics

    Why? Sure there is - hypotheticals that aren't real. It doesn't make sense to say time came into being without a meta-time. What change? When was there only one? No. That's not what "dimension" means in this context. :p You keep using that concept of prior to the BB as though it makes any more...
  6. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    I don't follow. Why does the observer becoming superpositioned mean that we should never see any quantum effects at all?
  7. PolyHedral

    Demystifying Quantum Physics

    This is only valid for an object at rest. A moving object is described by
  8. PolyHedral

    Demystifying Quantum Physics

    At all moments in time, there exists a somewhere - the universe. There is no before the Big Bang to ask, no more than there is a more southerly place than the South Pole. Yes - spacetime, as a whole, does not and cannot change. You misunderstand the concept of the Big Bang - it is a location...
  9. PolyHedral

    Demystifying Quantum Physics

    What does it mean for an unchanging, static object to have a source? All sections of time always exist. At the point of the big bang, the future and past exist, but there is merely no space which qualifies as "the past." The rest of the universe is either in the present, or the future.
  10. PolyHedral

    Demystifying Quantum Physics

    There is nowhere before the big bang, so asking anything about it is nonsense. 4D Minkowski spacetime.
  11. PolyHedral

    Demystifying Quantum Physics

    Mu. :D That is the underlying principle - that all of space and time together take place in one unified geometry.
  12. PolyHedral

    Which makes more sense to you?

    Salvation isn't exactly a scarce resource, is it?
  13. PolyHedral

    Demystifying Quantum Physics

    The principle is that spacetime is four-dimensional and mass and energy are the same quantity expressed in different directions. (Rest mass is time-like momentum.)
  14. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    OK, we're talking about a perfectly isolated system that doesn't interact with anything, and I'm good with claiming that the system is perfectly described by the wavefunction, with no "discontinuous change" involved. You're saying this is insufficient because I don't have any mechanism for...
  15. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    I agree, although IMO, however you interpret QM, every object has to have some well-defined state regardless of who knows what about it. There has to be something for God to see, even if nobody in practice can measure it. What "physical system" are you trying to make it correspond to, and why?
  16. PolyHedral

    Gays in the military

    Amusingly, I have heard fourth-hand that, back in the grand old days of the British Empire, homosexuality of any sort was illegal, except under one circumstance. :cover:
  17. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    The problem is that "state." Classical physics says "This is a particle's state..." Quantum physics says, "This is a particle's state..." You're saying that both of these are wrong, but not providing any alternative explanation for what a particle's state "really" is. As far as the physics is...
  18. PolyHedral

    Evidence

    I know, but there is one way to make it true with a completely conventional interpretation of the symbols.
  19. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    I want an explanation of what I'm measuring. What's the electron's state described by, if not a wave function? Does it have a defined spin before I measure it?
  20. PolyHedral

    Einstein and "spooky actions"

    If you are not measuring the wavefunction, (because that's not real) what are you measuring? What is "really" there? You're saying the wavefunction is not reality, but you're not replacing it with anything. Not quite - you have to show why it appears to take place in a almost-Euclidean space...
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