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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem (was: Continuos vs. discrete models)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.002703.5865@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov17.124233.24312@oracorp.com> <1992Nov20.182803.14288@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <368@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:27:03 GMT
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- In article <368@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.182803.14288@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
- >> >... 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.
- >>
- >> Sounds like an untestable hypothesis. What experiment could possibly
- >> decide whether only countably many reals occur in nature?
- >
- >The discussion on L-S has apparently misled you. I believe that the
- >space-time manifold is discrete, i. e. not continuous. There are many
- >ways to discriminate between a continuous and discrete model and this
- >has nothing to do with countability.
-
- So why this raging debate about how many reals, then?
- --
- Vaughan Pratt A fallacy is worth a thousand steps.
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