Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:06:00 -0500

In <d0tcnk01c0m@drn.newsguy.com>, on 03/11/2005
   at 04:22 PM, stevendaryl3016@yahoo.com (Daryl McCullough) said:

>So it's really only the combination of relativity and quantum
>mechanics that makes hidden variables theories nonviable.

Nobody has ever shown that relativity precludes hidden variables.
Relativity allows[1] for the possibility of tachions, and the path
integral approach to relativistic QED uses[2] spacelike trajectories.

[1] Although currently there is no evidence for them.

[2] That's suggestive rather than definitive, because you can
    consider the virtual particles to be artifacts of calculation
    rather than physical. 

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