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> LEM is simply taught as the truth in university courses. So is[0] the notion that quantum systems magically undergo non-local, non-linear, non-unitary, CPT-v
by a1369209993 6y ago
> LEM is simply taught as the truth in university courses.
So is[0] the notion that quantum systems magically undergo non-local, non-linear, non-unitary, CPT-violating, Liouville's-Theorem-violating, non-deterministic evolutions whenever a macroscopic system that happens to implement a sapient intellegence looks at something[1]. So that's not a very good yardstick for "this is not obviously false".
0: sample size of one univerity (circa 2010) for "simply taught as the truth", but I think it's recent enough and widespread enough to make a good example. See [2] if you want to investigate further.
1: aka the collapse postulate or Copenhagen interpretation
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation#Acceptance_among_physicists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation#Acce...
- JoeCamel 6y agoI would argue that trying to describe our physical world and reality has only one "axiom" which is: your description has to be consistent with our observations of the world. Mathematics doesn't have this limitation so I don't think your example is valid. If you don't like LEM, fine, maybe there is something interesting in systems without LEM, but most math is done with LEM. I don't think is a matter of "right" and "wrong".