Meta_Cosmology was Einstein's Religion.
- From: Jeff…Relf <Jeff_Relf@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 20 Apr 2006 00:29:53 GMT
Hi T_Wake, I wrote:
Einstein believed randomness was _Always_
a failure to measure some intrinsic causality. For example, he once said:
The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation.
The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the
past. __ See Albert Einstein's The_World_As_I_See_It
StephenJayGould.ORG/ctrl/einstein_religion.html
And you replied:
Your assumption does not logically follow from the citation you quoted.
Einstein postulated that the future is just as immutable as the past,
i.e. randomness can only be a failure to measure some intrinsic causality.
He also once wrote:
People like us, who believe in physics, know that
the distinction between past, present, and future is
only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
__ From Freeman Dyson's autobiography "Disturbing the Universe" recounting
a letter Einstein wrote to the sister and son of his oldest friend,
Michele Besso, in 1955
SpeakingOfFaith.PublicRadio.ORG/programs/einsteinsgod/unheardcuts.shtml
You concluded: Putting it on wiki doesn't change anything.
If it's controversial and requires a vote and the attention
of credentialed experts, and it passes... then yes, it does mean something.
Even if it fails the vote, due to it's controversial nature,
it's still true, prima facie.
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