Re: Surviving Einstein.

From: Martin Green (marty_at_aptitude-testing.com)
Date: 06/30/03 

Date: 30 Jun 2003 08:31:28 -0700

> John E. Hadstate wrote:
> > Hidden variables have been ruled out by whom? By people who can't figure
> > out what the hidden variables might be? That is circular reasoning.

Douglas Gwyn replied:
 
> Not at all...(snip)...The easiest way to see that is to
> consider the famous two-slit experiment, wherein providing
> additional paths to the goal actually reduces the chance
> of certain formerly likely outcomes to zero. That simply
> contradicts classical probability theory.

But it doesn't contradict classical wave theory.

It's only when you assume that light is made of particles
that you have a problem with determinism in the two-slit
experiment. The problem goes away if you treat light as
a wave.

Martin Green
http://www.onforeignsoil.com