Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 23:33:15 -0500 Message-ID: <5812D575.3AB1@ix.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:35:01 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. References: <68088aea-3893-40f6-b7ee-6943710c1928@googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 23 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-9VtTFOZZ26Vt0+UJn91qUqUYN39yp2yszmlaAKHT+AMRz7c2/3rqgaAETqFZ2hpbrUc1e/8yTr7VPDc!bN7z9vsOZpVGfqlAw3g8Za6dYTZFwqxepEtfq5vvY06qLDji6nmN2Z/FfHVZgWnIQa3Pb24qdur9!uamdPTCcfDk= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2004 X-Received-Bytes: 2095 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4287742867 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:378298 sci.physics:602757 Jeff-Relf.Me wrote: > > WikiPedia says: << The Many-Worlds interpretation is > an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts > the objective reality of the universal wavefunction > and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. >> > > "Quantum Mechanics" should be called "Quantum Statistics" > as it's just (misleading) correlations, sans cause and effect. > > "Virtual Particles" and "Probability Waves" are intrinsically random; > nature, however, is not -- Randomness is just ignorance, nothing more. > > Just because something is too complex to _fully_ understand, > like tomorrow's weather, it doesn't mean that it's _truly_ random; > in fact, we _know_ that it isn't. > > _Nothing_ can change the future, present or past; What if you just discoverd your mother is not your mother...doesn't that change your past?