From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 02:54:56 MST
Max M wrote:
> But the logic seems to be that because something can exist in different
> quantum states (at the quantum level) at the same time, that this is
> also logical at the macroscopic level!
>
> I don't understand how this leap can be made.
Hmmm ... I will try and reply to myself, to make my point clearer.
In a HiFi system there is a noise floor. If you crank it up high enough,
there is a hissing sound. This hiss is embedded in the music being
played on the system.
So if you play a song with the overlayed noise, it will be a "new" song
every time due to the random nature of the noise. There will be an
infinite number of versions of the same song. But the basic song is
still the same.
It is not like "Yesterday" is turned into "Jailhouse Rock" some of the
times. Yesterday remains yesterday, more or less distorted by the noise.
It seems to me that quantum uncertainty is the noisefloor of reality.
There may be an infinite number of universes at the quantum level, but
they are nothing more than a little embedded noise in the macroscopic
reality.
-- hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark http://www.futureport.dk/ Fremtiden, videnskab, skeptiscisme og transhumanisme
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