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Maybe this is a silly question, but if you haven't looked at them, how do you know the decision hasn't been made?
by zipfle 13y ago
Maybe this is a silly question, but if you haven't looked at them, how do you know the decision hasn't been made?
- EliRivers 13y agoThere are two answers to that; both the same. One them is "simple" fact, the other one is the same with a whole lot of explanation and maths and all sorts that, to be honest, I wouldn't trust myself to get right even given a day to dig it all up and write it out, and ultimately it finishes in the same place anyway. So I'll just give you the "simple" fact version, without supporting documentation, I'm afraid. Here it is; because that's how the universe works. That decision doesn't get made until "something" checks it/depends on it/interacts with it (the English language, at heart a way of telling macroscopic monkeys about tigers and bananas, does struggle a bit here). If you go digging yourself, you'll be able to go as deep as you like. I apologise for not presenting a better answer, but I'd really be doing you a disservice. Edit: It's really not a good answer at all. I'm digging through old reddit threads to see if RobotRollCall ever talked about this. Her explanations were generally very accessible.
- joe_the_user 13y agoYes, one would do better with some less dogmatic assertion. I asked the original question and I've harassed people with this question enough that I vaguely recall the answer. In terms of the boxes, the answer is you wind-up breaking open the boxes over time in different ways that wind-up with being incapable with the perspective that "just" a black stone or "just" a white stone is in each box. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox#Mathematical_formulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox#Mathematical_formul...