and speaking of Raymond Chiao

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 13:15:45 MST


I was unnerved to read at, of all places,

http://www.counterbalance.net/ctns-vo/chiao-body.html

(which gives a nice clear account of Chiao, Raymond Y. “Quantum
Nonlocalities: Experimental Evidence.")

that

< Chiao concludes with some additional philosophical and theological
reflections in light of these results and his Christian faith. He supports a
“neo-Berkeleyan” point of view in which the free choices of observers lead
to nonlocal correlations of properties of quantum systems in time as well as
in space, giving Berkeley’s dictum, esse est percipi, temporal as well as
spatial significance. Theologically he uses this generalized Berkeleyan
point of view to depict God as the Observer of the universe. Here God
creates the universe as a whole (ex nihilo) and every event in time (creatio
continua). The quantum nonseparability of the universe is suggestive of the
New Testament’s view of the unity of creation. In the process Chiao
discusses such ideas as the quantum entanglement of all events in the
universe given their common origin in the Big Bang, and he responds to the
challenge of the quantum Zeno paradox. >

* coff coff *

Damien Broderick



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