Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!vrdxhq!BMS-AT!stuart From: stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,talk.origins Subject: Re: Now wait a minute... (was Re: Who can know?) Message-ID: <218@BMS-AT.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 15:29:03 EDT Article-I.D.: BMS-AT.218 Posted: Tue Sep 23 15:29:03 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Sep-86 05:25:23 EDT References: <15222@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <988@hoptoad.uucp> <8443@duke.duke.UUCP> <15733@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA Lines: 13 Xref: linus talk.religion.misc:190 talk.origins:89 Summary: The electron smears. In article <15733@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith) writes: > mation cannot be measured because it doesn't exist. Even God cannot "see" > what path an electron takes if it doesn't in fact take a path, nor know > simultaneously its position and momentum if these do not simultaneously > exist. I (the originator of this argument) did not state that God could measure position and velocity simultaneously or describe its path. In fact, I rather agree with your position in this regard (but we still could be wrong). The point is that God can predict the outcome of a quantum experiment whereas we can't. -- Stuart D. Gathman <..!seismo!{vrdxhq|dgis}!BMS-AT!stuart>