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Re: Science Junk
Posted By: gabby, on host 208.130.229.99
Date: Tuesday, July 31, 2001, at 14:09:35
In Reply To: Science Junk posted by Wes on Tuesday, July 31, 2001, at 05:00:19:

What you described was very popular in the nineteenth century and still would be if we used purely Newtonian physics. But as others already pointed out, quantum information is unpredictable, if not random.

And a question for Dave, because he sounds like he knows what he's talking about:
Does quantum theory say that precise information is unknowable or just unmeasurable? 'Unmeasurable,' I think, would mean only that there is no possible way to determine the information precisely, while 'unknowable' would mean that there actually is no precise information. The second is highly anti-intuitive, but intuition generally means nothing in quantum physics...

gab"Anyone is allowed to answer that, really"by

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