Recent content by Dusty Monkey

No thats not the point of the double-slit experiment at all. You have confused the double-slit experiment with the EPR paradox. The double-slit experiment only shows that particles are not classical. This is at least the 2nd time I haver corrected you on this. The double-slit experiment...

Causality and Determinism are not the same. One can imagine a process which is completely and truely random, which has a cause and which triggers an effect. Such a system would be nondeterministic but still causal in nature. However its one thing to imagine a process which is completely...

Your first proposition is not correct. The quantum world does seem to operate under the rules of cause and effect. We have never observed effects without causes. The quantum world may be strange, but it doesnt do what many people here are claiming. It doesn't show that the universe is...

It appears that I am now fighting a straw-man. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/strawman.html 5cats is arguing that I have declared the universe to be deterministic, in order to defend his arguement that the universe is nondeterministic. I never declared the universe to be deterministic OR...

Feynman doesnt prove that they are particles in the sense that you mean. Period. #1 and #2 are not mutualy exclusive. A particle BY DEFINITION has both properties of Newtonian particles (what you mean in #1) and Dirac waves (what you mean in #2) I can't believe that you know anything...

Wave functions don't describe all the phenomena we observe, such as energy comming is discrete lumps. These theories don't work: (A) A particle is a lump of matter that behaves in a newtonian laws of motion sense. (B) A particle is a wave. We can show by observation that these...

Umm, nothing I said had anything to do with a multi-photon (or electron) diouble-slit experiment. Period. Stop dodging the issue. Just because it doesnt work in the 'classical' newtonian view of a particle, that doesnt mean it 'defies all understanding' - we understand it quite well - its...

What do the non-localiy experiments have to do with the double-slit experiments? NOTHING!!!!!!! DO NOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT You stated, and I quote you, that the double slit results "defies all understanding" WRONG! PERIOD! W R O N G ! Changing the subject doesnt make you right...

Actualy we understand the double-slit results quite well. Quantum Electrodynamics (a subset of quantum theory) is heralded as one of the best and seemingly most accurate theories mankind has ever considered. The theory itself predicts some fundamental constants of the universe to a great deal of...

You are attempting to use an experiment to prove a negative? :rolleyes: An experiments results need to be interpreted as to their ramifications. This interpretation can be logical or not logical. Obviously the ones that arent logical are bad interpretations. I know of no...

No you haven't. The only thing demonstrated here on this specific subject was that the people demonstrating it used an unjustifiable premise. You may wish to take it for granted, but science sure doesn't. Quantum theory does NOT by necessity break causality. Did I make myself clear...

I believe this tweak is helpfull on NVidia system with a low amount of video memory but not really helpfull on 256meg cards. Reasoning: A pixel on the primary display surface takes up 4 bytes of memory. In addition, each backbuffer also uses 4 bytes per pixel. With tripple buffering...

One thing however about the higher levels.. at least on deity The lack of city growth is often a non-issue before monarchy because the happyness caps are extremely low. Its the rapid expansion (or rapid military buildup) that is key.. the AI gets two settlers on turn 1 at the high levels..

"medical" != "scientific" Homeopathy for example is not scientific inspite of it being a "medical" theory. As for psychiatry: Psychiatric theory does not make the claim that a soul exists, or even that there is evidence for a soul. So I am wondering WTF you are talking about?? Show...

I'm not sure that I presented a premise on the subject, but thanks :) One could give all the believers a headache by asking them when exactly a "soul" gains control of a human - Immediately after the sperm breaks into the egg? Some time while its a fetus? The moment the baby leaves its...