Re: virus: Nature of Information

David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:00:35 -0600


At 09:30 AM 10/16/97 CST+6CDT, chardin wrote:

>While Heisenberg did say that the particles "pop" into existence in a
>way that can't be predicted, isn't it possible that there is a
>pattern, it is just that we don't have enough information to
>understand where the next "pop" is going to be?

This is called the "hidden variables" interpretation of QM. I read
in one of the articles in the latest issue of Skeptic that most
researchers working in the field are not holding much hope for
it these days (for whatever that's worth).

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