From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 16:48:12 MST
> Let us examine the question from the point of view of topology.
> Now (for those, excluding scerir, who don't know what I'm talking
> about, an "open" interval (0,1) does not contain its endpoints, 0
> and 1, while the closed interval [0,1] does).
I believed in topology untill I found a 'Klein' bottle in
a museum, a wine museum! In Torgiano (near Perugia)
http://www.lungarotti.it/pag_it/museovin.htm
But the weird thing was that the bottle has been made
400 years ago! :-)
> > I remember that John Bell, talking with Davies, told him that a
> > "super-determinism" would perhaps solve the business of QM (The Ghost
> > in the Atom, page 47). Now the retarded + advanced waves model actually
> > imposes a "super-determinism" on the universe.
> Fascinating.
Bell thought (but not always!) that if absolutely everything is
pre-determined (also the choice of the set-up, by the observer,
in example in EPR experiments) well this gets us out of any problem.
I remember that Wigner derived Bell's inequalities from 3
general concepts: probability, locality, super-determinism.
Of course he knew that QM is not deterministic, but he
was able to explain that his super-determinism was
perfectly consistent with Heisenberg principle!
If experimental confirmations of the impossibility
of local hidden variables are true, then one of those
3 concepts by Wigner is false.
> Your explanation is wonderfully clear.
I'm not sure it is mine. Maybe Damien built that model.
s.
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