<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">John K Clark</b> <<a href="mailto:jonkc@att.net">jonkc@att.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Brent Allsop Wrote:<br><br>> Interesting idea about physical existence without having<br>> any causal property.<br><br>No not really.<br><br>> Isn't it possible that you could have two physical objects - both a
<br>> particular atom or something that can be causally completely<br>> indistinguishable from the other.<br><br>Then how do you know you have two physical objects and not one?<br><br></blockquote></div>That problem has been dealt with by Quantum Statistics.
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The answer is different from the classical and results in different physical properties in (say) metals.<br>
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Dirk<br>