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To: Bilow who wrote (776147)

3/22/2014 2:50:59 PM

From: koan

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Hi koan; Re: "There is a probability for anything (the HUP!).";

Not true.

In QM, conservation principles exclude a lot of things. For example, while it's possible for the vacuum to create things of a given energy, that is only possible if their lifetime is sufficiently small. For measurements taken over long time, these can be excluded.

And for things you'd like to imagine, for example, having a "10" supermodel, who's sexually attracted to you, appear in your bedroom for an hour, you can compute the probabilities for these happening. They're so low as to be excluded by the theory itself. That is, the total evidence that we have in favor of QM could be wrong. That's a very small probability but it's huge compared to the supermodel probability. Another way of saying the same thing is that QM could be wrong, but at a very small level. If that level is around the supermodel probability, you wouldn't be able to detect the difference. And so you really can't say that "anything" is possible according to QM.>>

Did you smoke a joint before you posted that?

QM is all about probability and even low probability is probability.

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