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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (2952)	10/30/2000 12:54:30 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

. The randomness of quantum mechanics does happen at the smallest level of particles, but it happens a tiny bit to all particles and so ultimately affects all things from quarks to galaxies. This month's Scientific American relates a story about superimposed states equivalent to Schrodinger's Cat involving two SQUID loops (one detector and one target). The inner loop was made to have two simultaneous states of conduction exist (forward and backward) with the outer loop was the detector of the phenomenon. This was done at much larger scales than previously thought possible. It wasn't until the outer loop was sampled that the conduction was resolved into a right or left flowing current. Until that, the current was flowing both directions. This process of having some state "popping into reality" is called "decoherence". It is the process by which reality, IMO, "crystallizes" to form what we call objective reality.