On 08/06/2016 02:04 PM, juan wrote:
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 15:31:13 -0600 Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
The problem with classical mechanics is that it's not consistent with measurements.
Not consistent with what measurements?
The fucking paper that I've cited. And more generally, all experiments that reject the null hypothesis that the outcome of the CHSH game is 75% or less.
Quantum mechanics is. The equations. According to the Copenhagen interpretation, only the math matters. I don't like it any more than you seem to. Because I'm not a mathematician.
"Only the math matters" doesn't make sense. This might come as a shock, but physics is supposed to 'measure' 'reality'. Then the measured magnitudes may end up in some equations, used to calculate other aspects of...reality.
Like, you measure the volume of object X, you then put 'volume' and 'density' in a equation, and you get the weight of object X.
Math is just a tool that deals with numbers. And numbers without units have no physical meaning.
Quantum mechanics is math. It makes predictions about reality that can be tested. By experiments where stuff gets measured. The problem is that some predictions of quantum mechanics, such as this stuff about entanglement, 1) have been verified experimentally, but 2) don't make obvious sense. That is, a wave function comprising two entangled electrons can apparently collapse instantaneously, even though the electrons are arbitrarily far apart. You could try to give up light as a universal speed limit. But that creates other paradoxes.
So basically, they find that the classical model of reality is fucked.
lol lol lol
You must be a local realist ;)
I of course am a rationalist and a realist. I don't know what 'local realism' is supposed to mean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_locality#Local_realism