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Old 02-13-2007, 04:51 PM
PairTheBoard PairTheBoard is offline
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Default Re: I\'m and Atheist and Believe in Predeterminism: Prove Me Wrong

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"That which I cannot create, I do not understand"

Quantum indeterminancy revolves around the uncertainty principle and how probe particles cannot expose the underlying mechanisms if they exist. In other words, without a constituent probe particle that reveals more information than the photon does (highly unlikely), speculating about said mechanisms not only reveals no new information but is in fact completely meaningless. In other words, you're proposing a theory that cannot be disproven. Because of this there is no falsifiability and thus this is an invalid theory.

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Is this correct? I thought the uncertainty principle went deeper than this. Whereby it's not just the practical impossiblity of determining both location and velocity exactly with a probe, but an inherent uncertainty for the two taken together as a matter of the actual state.

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