Re: A quote concerning randomness

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: 11 Oct 2004 16:46:34 GMT

Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> writes:

]Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:

]> Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
]>
]>> ... On the other hand, if you could spend enough effort to
]>> write a clear and strong refutation, ...
]>
]>
]> It would be too much effort for merely refuting
]> uninformed speculation.
]>
]> I note that the "science" section of the local
]> chain bookstore was abolished a year ago.

]Oh, the paper referred to in the article was anyway published
]in Trans. Roy. Soc. London. If such an apparently quite
]esteemed scientific journal contains uninformed speculations,
]then I, as a layman, must feel entirely sorry and depressed.
](Where are then reliable scientic sources to be found?)

I believe it was Proceedings of the Royal Society-- I can find no article
by Palmer in the Transactions. I think you do not understand how science
works. It proceeds by people presenting new ideas which they and others can
chase up.

IF Palmer has found a way of evading Bell with a classical system, it is
significant. I am dubious, but do not understand his paper well enough yet
to be able say that I know it is wrong.

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