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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem (was: Continuos vs. discrete models)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.182803.14288@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov17.124233.24312@oracorp.com> <COLUMBUS.92Nov19155452@strident.think.com> <366@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:28:03 GMT
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- In article <366@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
- >No doubt replacing a model that one knows and loves with one that is new
- >and foreign will be a nightmare for many physicists. It will only happen
- >from necessity. I think the key to doing this will be tests of Bell's
- >inequality. I have posted arguments and my paper is now under review that
- >shows that quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory. QM does not predict
- >the delays to be expected in tests of Bell's inequality. If these arguments
- >hold, this will provide the incentive to do the experiments to measure these
- >delays. QM needs to be extended to predict these delays and the only way
- >to do this is through experiment. My expectation is that these experiments
- >will provide the first measures of the structure of quantum collapse. I
- >think it will be impossible to account for this structure with a continuous
- >model.
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- Sounds like an untestable hypothesis. What experiment could possibly
- decide whether only countably many reals occur in nature?
- --
- Vaughan Pratt A fallacy is worth a thousand steps.
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