Quantum science (Introduction)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Saturday, August 08, 2009, 19:17 (5382 days ago) @ David Turell

I didn't find anything new there, but I don't have a subscription so can't read the links. - Thinking mathematically I would point out that Nothing is just a special case of Something, where the amount of the Something is zero. As a "Nihilist" I'm now inclined to believe that there is in fact Nothing, if you add it all up (both the positive and the negative). - Looking at some of my old essays I came across this link to an article by Victor J Stenger on Quantum Quackery. I'm not sure if I've posted it here before, but it is relevant to a lot of the recent comments. - http://www.csicop.org/si/9701/quantum-quackery.html - At the end it offers an explanation of entanglement in terms of quantum fluctuation of the vacuum. - As to people believing what they want to believe for aesthetic or emotional reasons, or, as one of the sections of the New Scientist article suggests, because it makes a good story, I've nothing against this. In fact I do it myself. Problems only arise when people state these beliefs as totally established facts that we must all bow down to.

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GPJ