To: G. Stolyarov II
You have not provided a link as to how these fenomena are explicable via modern fysics; I don't think I really need to supply a link for something that we should have learned in high school.
One explication of the two slit experiment is that light is both a continuous wave and a discrete particle. As these are mutually exclusive states, in classical physics, classical physics declines to offer an explanation at all.
You have not "provided a link" as to how the invariance is "explicable" via classical physics.
Your arguments are especial non sequiturs where practical accomplishments are concerned, as I can claim that these derive from partially true aspects of given modern theories that are consistent with the Indentity Principle,
No, you cannot. Entanglement, in all it's various manifestations is a straighforward violation of the principle of identity. Some aspect of a discrete particle of light goes through both slits at once.
275 posted on
01/09/2004 1:59:28 PM PST by
donh
To: donh
Mr. donh: One explication of the two slit experiment is that light is both a continuous wave and a discrete particle. As these are mutually exclusive states, in classical physics, classical physics declines to offer an explanation at all.
Mr. Stolyarov: The entire notion of considering light as EITHER a particle OR a wave is not in accord with the identity principle. That is similar to considering a cat as EITHER an elefant OR an ant, though it is somewhere in between in terms of size and radically different in terms of lifestyle, genetics, and behavioral habits from both other animals.
Light may exhibit properties similar to those of both particles and waves, but it is an ontological fallacy to refer to light as either a particle or a wave (or a blend of both; a cat is NOT a hybrid of an elefant and an ant). A third category needs to be created, which encompasses the behavior of light and similar entities and accounts for objectively demonstrable occurrences such as the two-slit fenomenon. This, however, says NOTHING about the Identity Principle nor about the entities that DO exhibit discrete particulate and wave behavior.
I do not oppose modifications to classical fysics that are consistent with the Identity Principle, but modern relativists seem to wish to "correct" the slight deficiencies of classical thought by destructing that very principle which renders all coherent thought possible.
283 posted on
01/22/2004 11:03:09 AM PST by
G. Stolyarov II
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