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To: LibWhacker

Great article, and thanks for posting. My brain hurts but I think I sort of get it, at least a little. What the author terms collapse theory has actually been around for quite awhile. In lay terms (if I understand it correctly) it is, in fact, observation that collapses the wave function, but then how do we account for an identical result from two independent observations? The answer is that they aren’t independent, that they are linked by the datum being observed. This is mathematically robust but logically it is entirely circular and hence unsatisfying. But that’s what I got out of buying a lot of beer for some really smart people.


20 posted on 09/29/2014 6:12:47 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

Ping for me.


22 posted on 09/29/2014 6:32:39 PM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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