Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: quidnunc
Actually according to the laws of quantum mechanics, history is just a set of possible histories with various probabilities of occurring. There is no one exact history.

Quantum mechanics sometimes makes my head hurt.
4 posted on 06/23/2005 11:53:10 AM PDT by Moral Hazard (According to the Catholic church the Capybara is a fish.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Moral Hazard

"Actually according to the laws of quantum mechanics, history is just a set of possible histories with various probabilities of occurring."

Wrong. The past is fixed; no multiverses going backward, only forward. That doesn't mean that those with a political or cultural axe to grind won't keep trying to put their particular spin upon that fixed history, though.


5 posted on 06/23/2005 11:58:02 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Moral Hazard


Yes there are multiple quantum states, but according to Schrodinger Cat Theory, once you take action you're quantum state has been decided...even if all states exist at the same time, relative to that decision.

Thus the cat eats the mouse...it tastes good. For that cat the mouse was good, it's history is that the mouse was good tasting. Now for a Cat in a different quantum state where the mouse was bad...his history is the mouse tasted bad.

So relative to the individual, regardless of multiple states, an exact history for that individual can be defined.


6 posted on 06/23/2005 11:59:29 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent green is people!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Moral Hazard
>>>Quantum mechanics sometimes makes my head hurt. <<<

According to string theory, there is another dimension only trillionths away from the one we are in and it probably has a different history. Yeah; and there are suppose to be 11 of them....including ours of course.

String theory makes me feel like I can pass a string in one ear and out the other without disturbing anything.

8 posted on 06/23/2005 12:00:55 PM PDT by HardStarboard (With Lebanon simmering, Iran on medium-high, whose next? I vote Syria....lets turn up the heat!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: Moral Hazard

quantum mechanics: the dreams stuff is made of.


23 posted on 06/23/2005 12:23:50 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson