Re: No new Einstein

I.Vecchi wrote:
> cmaj10@xxxxxxxxx ha scritto:
> ..
> >
> > The real question is: Is nature deterministic or not? You seem to
> > adhere to the view that it is not deterministic. But let's confirm this
> > with this question: Given a pair of perfectly identical nuclei having
> > EXACTLY THE SAME STATE {to every imaginable and inimaginable detail),
> > and with similar neighborhoods. Does it seem plausible to you that they
> > will take different amounts of time to decay?
>
> If one agrees that "the quantum state is just an expectation catalog
> .. its purpose is to make predictions about possible measurement
> results a specific observer does not know yet" ([1]), then obviously
> yes.
>
> However in order to accept the above one has to give up deeply
> ingrained metaphysical assumptions (aka superstitions) about
> "objective" reality.
>
> IV
>
> [1] Thomas Jennewein, Gregor Weihs, Jian-Wei Pan, Anton Zeilinger
> "Reply to Ryff's comment ..." quant-ph/0303104

Does reality care about the quantum state? Or is it only the observer
who cares about it?

Chris

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