tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30885497.post6116449629244874498..comments2023-10-31T04:50:56.192-07:00Comments on Adventures of a Wetware Hacker: Parijata Mackeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08166621374297668956noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30885497.post-65163763565134834582007-12-13T01:32:00.000-08:002007-12-13T01:32:00.000-08:00(Eight months too late...)Never never never believ...(Eight months too late...)<BR/><BR/>Never never never believe a physicist who tells you to abandon "realism" because quantum mechanics says you must. (You should be equally beware of those who say that Bohr - or Everett - explained it all.) Despite the categorical nature of the title, this is actually just a test of a <A HREF="http://www.springerlink.com/content/r23275410u4p5q72/" REL="nofollow">limited class</A> of nonlocal theories, and not a well-known class at that. <A HREF="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/" REL="nofollow">Bohm's theory</A> remains completely consistent with experiment, because it gives exactly the same predictions as quantum mechanics. It is achieved at the price of relativity, conceptually at least - in Bohmian field theory you would still have all those relativistic phenomena like time dilation and length contraction, but the underlying dynamics requires absolute time - but one might consider this a smaller loss than mind-independent reality.Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10768655514143252049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30885497.post-14225653778265174252007-04-26T05:29:00.000-07:002007-04-26T05:29:00.000-07:00"And the French Revolution? Piece of cake."That's ..."And the French Revolution? Piece of cake."<BR/><BR/>That's what Marie Antoinette said, and now look where she is.<BR/><BR/>(Yes, I know she didn't actually say "let them eat cake.")<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I'm sorry that I haven't updated my blog with any form of regularity. I was working on a post last night, but kept getting distracted with the magic of the Internet.Nicholas LeComptehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10634048204076770250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30885497.post-13638428805735370362007-04-26T02:07:00.000-07:002007-04-26T02:07:00.000-07:00yes... such craziness we scientists are reduced to...yes... such craziness we scientists are reduced to. check out my new post; it's disturbing, and it references your reference!chartom_shel_tehomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01674979766418856863noreply@blogger.com