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Quantum physics is usefully sketched out for the layperson here: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/the-quantum-phy.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/0
by JulianMorrison 18y ago
Quantum physics is usefully sketched out for the layperson here: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/the-quantum-phy.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/06/the-quantum-phy.html
It's deterministic. QM objections are based on bad pop sci.
Undecidability in the context of physics sounds interesting, care to add detail?
- jerf 18y agoThat series of posts goes beyond the science. I think his arguments boil down to him simply being unable to accept nondeterminism, and his argument that many-worlds is inevitable is simply absurd on the face of it; we could be in a simulation that is based in a universe without many-worlds and you'd never be able to tell the difference, so it's hardly obvious that even if we're not in a simulation that many worlds is inevitable. I also think he falls prey to Euclidianism, which most people do. In a Minkowskian universe, a lot of QM's nondeterminism is a lot less magical, even if it's still nondeterministic.