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Re:an infinite number of possibilities..
« Reply #1 on: 2006-04-27 10:43:03 » |
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Refer primarily to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen_paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation will also be helpful in considering the role of the double slit experiment as well as the Cambridge and later Innsbruck experiments in proving that Bell's Inequality demonstrates that quantum theory is a genuine effect invalidating the hidden local variable concept and requiring resolution. It is also perhaps worth mentioning that while it occurred after the developments of the theories, the COBE experiment validated the quantum big bang model, adding a cosmological scale requirement to deal with in addition to the quantum scale needs.
It is, I think, important to notice that the approaches popularised by "An Elegant Universe" reflect only a few of the many possible ways we have defined while attempting to reconcile classical and quantum theories. The need to reconcile duality (my own preference is towards Feynman's Path integrals refer e.g. [ "Re:Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Prove the Existence of God?, Reply #3, Hermit, 2005-12-01 15:38:44 ] ) is clearly necessitated by the need to reconcile the well proven (through the above experiments) probabilistic nature of the Universe at the quantum level (offensive as the idea is to our perception and preconceptions), and our perception of the Universe as deterministic at the physical level.
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