Re: Surviving Einstein.
From: AE (hidden_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/27/03
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:14:42 +0200
Roger Schlafly wrote:
> "AE" <hidden@nospam.com> wrote
>
>>>Show me a "truly random event" and I'll show you a "physical phenomenon
>>
> that
>
>>>you do not fully understand."
>>
>>The precise time of the tunneling of an alpha particle out of a nucleus.
>
>
> And that is something that no one understands. Supposedly it is
> explained by the strong, weak, and electromagnetic gauge theories,
> but there is no theoretical calculation that can give you the half-life
> of the nucleus or anything like that. The decay mechanism is not
> understood.
I beg to differ. I think we are able to describe the phenomenon of
tunneling as good as it gets. There is no non-understood effect but just
the fact that God plays dice.
Or let it take me that way: Quantum mechanics delivers a very good
description for this kind of phenomenon - it allows to predict the laws
behind these things and whatever it predicted so far seems to be accurate.
No reason to believe in hidden variables that seem not to be able to
describe the phenomenon correctly.
Why not just accept the dice?
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