On Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 6:06:48 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 1:42 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 8:20:07 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: >>> >>> . All you have to do is come up with the dynamics of the retrocausal >>> mechanism that explains the Aspect experiments. >>> >> >> >> I did: *The reflective path integral w/logical variables*. >> > > That is not the Aspect experiment. >
I'll look at it sometime and formulate it in σCP. Programming (programming languages) is the future of physics. > > > You are condemned as a charlatan by your silence on the important issue. >>> >>> Bruce >>> >>> >> >> Of course I'm a charlatan. I've never claimed to be anything else. >> >> What are you? >> > > Someone interested in physics......to the exclusion of unevidenced dogma. > > Look, Price has been banging on about retrocausal explanations of > violations of the Bell inequalities for 30 or more years. And before that, > there have been many years of similar ideas, such as Cramer's transactional > interpretation and so on. On the surface, these ideas might seem plausible > and attractive. But the fact is that even after all this time, they have > succeeded in persuading only a few weak-minded individuals. Now why might > that be? My explanation is that these ideas have never been applied to give > convincing dynamical explanations for anything. In fact, if you try to > apply retrocausal ideas to the Aspect experiment, you rapidly run into > insuperable difficulties, and are forced to conclude that retrocausality > can give only classical correlations -- the result that Lawrence alluded to > some time ago. > > Bruce > There are a bunch of people working on both retrocausal and contextual models, Some are physicists and mathematicians, not just philosophers. Its an open question (there is nothing closed* in physics). ts the Physics Gestapo that wants to swarm in (on what they see as the "weak-minded individuals") and say it is ruled out of bounds. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_anarchism @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/dd4fde88-fef7-487f-8d89-ae57dc5c7726%40googlegroups.com.
