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From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.physics
Subject: Re: Does the moon exist?
Message-ID: <547@umich.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 17:37:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 17:37:48 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Mar-86 08:15:38 EST
References: <12628@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <539@umich.UUCP> <12714@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: torek@zippy.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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Summary: 

In article <12714@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> desj@brahms.UUCP (David desJardins) writes:
>In article <539@umich.UUCP> torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek ) writes:
>>For a less mystifying view, see N. Maxwell, ``Are Probabilism and Special
>>Relativity Incompatible?'', _Philosophy of Science_ 198[4?].  He suggests
>>that wave-packet collapse occurs whenever the difference in rest-energy
>>between the possible collapsed states exceeds a certain value.
>
>   What is mystifying is how people can believe stuff like this.  Sorry,
>but this is the kind of artificial bullshit that people to whom physics
>is too mystifying to understand cook up to make it "simpler."  The only
>reason anyone would believe this is if they can't understand real QM.
>   This reminds me of the morons who believe that "entropy" has some
>magical significance and that the universe somehow keeps track of what
>it is everywhere and makes sure that it never decreases.  You may laugh,
>but I have seen it!
>
>   -- David desJardins

You really have shit for brains, don't you?  No doubt you haven't even
read the article you are criticizing.

Flames to /dev/null,
--Paul Torek						torek@umich