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To: Quark2005
People tend to try to read too much philosophy into the science of quantum mechanics. Wave-particle duality means just what it says; no explicit or implicit statements about "independent reality" lie within it.

Oh, there's plenty of philosophical red meat in quantum physics; it's just that most people get the philosophy wrong. Reality is weird, nonlocal, superposed, indeterminate, random, and even retroactive, but in the final analysis, everyone's measurements of this reality will agree.

61 posted on 10/12/2005 11:08:20 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
... and even retroactive ...

Better watch out. Your grandchildren might decided to wipe you out in your childhood as part of a lab in time travel. It could happen to any of us at any --

63 posted on 10/12/2005 11:56:32 AM PDT by PatrickHenry ( I won't respond to a troll, crackpot, retard, or incurable ignoramus.)
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