[MD] BBC IOT: THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM IN PHYSICS

[MarshaV]

Platt,

Yup, it makes me laugh when some think certain 
scientific points-of-view are too obvious even to 
question...  Both philosophy of science and the 
anthropology of science have posited some 
challenges that make keeping an open mind 
absolutely essential.   Within the MOQ, Darwin's 
theory is a static pattern of value which doesn't 
have an independent existence and is in a 
constant state of change.


Marsha


At 10:24 AM 4/12/2009, you wrote:

>[Marsha, quoting the BBC]
> > The measurement problem arises because we don´t
> > really understand how the atoms that constitute
> > our world behave. They are fundamentally
> > mysterious to us, even shocking, and they defy
> > our attempts to measure and make sense of them.
> > Possible solutions range from the existence of
> > multiple realities to the rather more mundane
> > possibility of an error in our mathematics - but
> > a solution, if found, could transform our understanding of reality.
>
>Exactly. When science attributes an event to chance or relies on
>probability it admits, "We really don't know how or why."  Without
>measurement, science is lost. Yet the most meaningful things in life are
>immeasurable -- love, beauty, quality.
>
>Platt
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