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- From: ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Sarfatti answers Gallis re: unitarity barrier to FTL QM COMM.
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 00:00:06 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <By1qI5.GJG@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us
- (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- |There is enough ambiguity in the details of interpretation of QM that it is
- |a quibble whether I am using standard QM or a deviation from it. Let's see
- |what experiments say! If you like call my model "Sarfatti Mechanics".
-
- Fine. "Sarfatti mechanics".
-
- |It is arrogant for all of you to presume and pretend that "standard
- |quantum mechanics" is unambiguous. Even Feynman said he did not really
- |understand it. So did Bohr.
-
- They didn't say that it was so ambiguous that the answer to what is
- essentially an undergraduate QM homework problem could not be clear.
-
- This discussion has gone beyond the point of diminishing returns for
- me, and I don't plan to have anything more to say about it. I think
- Sarfatti's most recent comments speak well enough for themselves.
-
- Keith Ramsay "But I really think that frequent posters such as
- ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca myself, Dale, Scott, McIrvin and others are not
- crackpots; we are simply loudmouths."
- -John Baez
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