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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 235321" data-attributes="member: 192438">This situation is now getting &quot;quite interesting&quot;.Previously, I've complained about other people introducing pseudo science, eg Cavorite, perpetual motion, etc, and now I'm accused ot it!Quantum mechanics is pretty damn strange! Einstein hated it (&quot;the Old One does not play dice&quot; (ie, Spinoza's God)), and Richard Feynman said that if you think you understand it, you don't!So, the wave function really does collapse (at some point!), and after the Aspect Experiment, we know for a fact that reality is non local (ie, &quot;something&quot; propogates instantly, although there's no way you can use it to send a signal!).The same experimentally derived sceince which gives such results also gives us Bloch Functions, electron waves in a crystal lattice, which makes transistors possible. Very real stuff indeed, so hardly pseudosceince.One objection to the Anthropic Principle is it's probably a truism, hence a tautology, hence meaningless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spiney, post: 235321, member: 192438"] This situation is now getting "quite interesting". Previously, I've complained about other people introducing pseudo science, eg Cavorite, perpetual motion, etc, and now I'm accused ot it! Quantum mechanics is pretty damn strange! Einstein hated it ("the Old One does not play dice" (ie, Spinoza's God)), and Richard Feynman said that if you think you understand it, you don't! So, the wave function really does collapse (at some point!), and after the Aspect Experiment, we know for a fact that reality is non local (ie, "something" propogates instantly, although there's no way you can use it to send a signal!). The same experimentally derived sceince which gives such results also gives us Bloch Functions, electron waves in a crystal lattice, which makes transistors possible. Very real stuff indeed, so hardly pseudosceince. One objection to the Anthropic Principle is it's probably a truism, hence a tautology, hence meaningless. [/QUOTE]

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