<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Henson</b> <<a href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</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;">
<br>If all of you get KurzweilAI.net Daily Newsletter I should not bother with<br>posting these gems. Keith<br><br>Quantum physics says goodbye to reality<br><br>20 April 2007<br><br>Some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum
<br>events are innately random. This is why many have proposed more complete<br>theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by<br>extra "hidden variables". Now physicists from Austria claim to have
<br>performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables<br>theories that focus on realism -- giving the uneasy consequence that<br>reality does not exist when we are not observing it (Nature 446 871).
<br><br>Some 40 years ago the physicist John Bell predicted that many<br><br><a href="http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/4/14">http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/4/14</a></blockquote><div><br>The many worlds interpretation does away with randomness, non-locality and non-realism without hidden variables.
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