SpaceGazelle wrote:For Vela. https://maltoni.web.cern.ch/maltoni/PHY1222/mermin_moon.pdf Just deal with it.
acemuzzy wrote:Surely the moon exists as a quantum field that's highly likely to be there if you observe it, even before you actually observe it? I'm not sure your usage of "exist" is helpful.
Knight wrote:So out of interest is it because the existence, or otherwise, of multiverses, is 'neither here nor there' the reason it's preferable to theism? That is, theism has lived implications for its adherents that you find worrying?
SpaceGazelle wrote:Incidentally, Bell's test experiment is the most profundly important thing anyone has ever come up with in the whole of humanity. Not that anyone gives a shit or knows much about it. You don't need to know when you've got beardy cunt. https://www.wired.com/2014/01/bells-theorem/
I'm pretty much down with that without any kind of science background. Except 'exist' is still probably the wrong word. And the simulation thing... well, likely or not it just doesn't matter in the end.SpaceGazelle wrote:By exist I mean have physical properties, numbers if you like, that you can attribute to a thing. Spin, position etc. It turns out there are no hidden variables - numbers that define a thing but we can't see or measure for whatever reason, and those numbers are only called into existence upon observation. Reality does not exist until inspection. It's almost like we're living in some kind of computer simulation or something. I wonder why that is?acemuzzy wrote:Surely the moon exists as a quantum field that's highly likely to be there if you observe it, even before you actually observe it? I'm not sure your usage of "exist" is helpful.
acemuzzy wrote:Nah info can't travel faster than the speed of light, and I don't think this breaks that
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