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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: E who wrote (2929)10/29/2000 11:04:23 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
I know these must seem comically simple minded questions to somebody who understands the principles at work,

Not at all, E. The fact is that most physicists are repelled by this aspect of QM and are reluctant to discuss the metaphysical implications. I think Heisenberg said "anyone who doesn't feel fundamentally disturbed by the implications of QM doesn't understand it."

Here is a quote I found:
Max Born's colleague Pascual Jordan declared that observations not only disturb what has to be measured, they produce it. In a measurement, "the electron is forced to a decision. We compel it to assume a definite position; previously it was, in general, neither here nor there, it had not yet made its decision for a definite position....We ourselves produce the results of the measurement." (quoted by Max Jammer, The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (New York: John Wiley, 1974)
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