One can prove the existence of something. The opposite of something is nothing. Nothingness by definition is non-exisiting. It is a no-thing. Therefore, if nothing is not, then something necessarily is. What that necessary something is is a matter of debate, but to doubt the necessity of...
quote: "measuring those properties is what brings them into existence"
This is a logically nonsensical statement. If the "measuring" brings them into existence, then there is no measuring! There is only creating. Measuring no longer has any meaning. You are now talking about creation.
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This is an example where logic is being ignored, one of my big beefs with Copenhagen Interp.
If something does not exist in an ontologically real sense PRIOR to observation, there is no observation. If your logic is correct, we have lost the meaning of the word "observation" and should stop...
No, that's not quite true. I have been searching for books and articles on the web that would explain to me, in a way that I can get my rational mind around, how the CI can be true. I really don't have any prejudice in my mind against it, other than the fact that it's utter irrationalism...
Thanks for the links. I read a couple of things that portrayed Bohm as believing that the interference pattern in the double slit test was caused by actually existing waves along with the particle, rather than the notion that the pattern is the result of some "probability wave" that doesn't have...
Well, if you detect something with a spin, you would simply use reason to then assume that the spin was there already (unless something about your detection apparatus physically caused the spin. But, if no causal link is known, no necessity to assume it.)
I just get the sense that a bunch of...
Hello,
First post.
I have been doing a lot of reading in quantum physics, and I am really riled up about some things. First off, I get the feeling when reading those who defend the Copenhagen Interpretation (CI) that they are earnestly trying to put one over on me.
I'm a rational guy. I...