Recent content by Aeroflech

I just want to point out that there is a distinction between an absence of a solid reality and consciousness being fundamental or conscious thought being able to affect things 'by itself'. I don't think QM and consciousness are fundamentally connected, and it is rather irritating when people...

But isn't 'realism', in the end, another 'common sense' notion?

Hmm...that doesn't look right to me. With people being used as an example, the (unspoken) assumption that there is something 'beyond' their responses that can be seen. However, in QM, you can't, even in principle, look 'behind' what quantum systems 'say'. This would not be a problem if, say...

That assertion is incorrect. What I had in mind when I was writing that phrase down was the Kochen-Specker theorem.

I'd like you to show hard evidence that there is a reality outside our observations. Personally I don't think you can, as the only thing we have to define our reality by is our observations. Now, this does not mean that there can't be arguments for a observer independent reality. If a good...

Sorry for the gravedig, but there's something that I need to say. jambaugh, you say that any QM needs to be freed of the 'expectations' of a classical theory. However, from what I've heard of the Copenhagen Interpretation(CI), I don't think that it truly does that. The reason I think this...

I think it is rather naive, and perhaps even disingenuous to call it non-locality when it disappears in certain interpretations. Also, http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/27640" article raises the possibility that non-locality may not even be enough. (Though I don't think that this would...

I asked this in sci.physics.strings and I haven't gotten an answer yet, so I hope you'll oblige me.

How can string theory explain the results of Bell inequality experiments and experiments of similar inequalities?