Re: Hawking and the Pope

From: Jochen Fromm (Jochen.Fromm_at_t-online.de)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:23:24 +0200

>
> If there is no alternative
> then your thesis is meaningless.
>

Yes, of course. Many scientists think that Quantum Theory
(including Quantum Field Theory and String Theory) is not
the last word. Some try to construct their own theories,
for example Arkadiusz Jadczyk who has proposed an
"Event Enhanced Quantum Theory" (EEQT)
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9812081

Or Prof. Gerard t'Hooft. Urs Schreiber reported in
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/string/archives/000400.html
(a very interesting site, by the way)

"...He expects that there is a deterministic and local
(yes, local) hidden variable theory behind it all, which would
be apparent if only we knew the correct degrees of freedom
of nature. Since we don't, we only see a statistical average
of this deterministic process, and this translates in a
non-local way to the quantum mechanical wavefunction,
roughly"

I personally think that evolution is important and maybe
the answer we are looking for (see the reply to
Bob Kolker).