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To: chronic_loser
I was just as confused over his answer as I am at yours.

What I am discussing is the result of empiricism, not mysticism. You cannot walk through walls, but at the quantum level, particles can move from one location to another without traversing the intervening space. Engineers rely on this phenomenon in designing everyday appliances sold at Walmart.

I am not peddling Star Trek transporters or faster than light travel. I think these are unlikely if not impossible.

I am simply saying that intuitive notions like causation are subject to revision or even contradiction by careful an systematic observation.

665 posted on 12/09/2005 5:20:42 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138
Could you live with this statement?

"You cannot walk through walls, but at the quantum level, particles can move from one location to another without being observed traversing the intervening space"

and then going on to the possible revisions of worldviews principles of causation this would birth?

667 posted on 12/09/2005 5:36:00 AM PST by chronic_loser
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