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Re: Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity

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<swormley1@gmail.com> "Sam Wormley" cut, pasted & wrote:
> Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity
>> https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150910-einstein-insanity/
>> “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting
>> different results,” which is what Einstein Dingleberries do in
>> their;religiously fanatical worship[ of Albert's Sphincter.
>> That low-witticism — I’ll call it “Einstein Insanity” — is usually
>> attributed to Albert Einstein. Though the Matthew effect may be
>> operating here, it is undeniably the sort of clever, memorable
>> one-liner that Einstein often tossed off. And I’m happy to give him
>> the credit, because doing so takes us in interesting directions.
>>
>> First of all, note that what Einstein describes as insanity is,
>> according to quantum theory, the way the world actually works. In
>> quantum mechanics you can do the same thing many times and get
>> different results. Indeed, that is the premise underlying great
>> high-energy particle colliders. In those colliders, physicists bash
>> together the same particles in precisely the same way, trillions upon
>> trillions of times. Are they all insane to do so? It would seem they
>> are not, since they have garnered a stupendous variety of results.
>>
>> Of course Einstein, famously, did not believe in the inherent
>> unpredictability of the world, saying “God does not play dice.” Yet
>> in playing dice, we act out Einstein Insanity: We do the same thing
>> over and over — namely, roll the dice — and we correctly anticipate
>> different results. Is it really insane to play dice? If so, it’s a
>> very common form of madness!
>>
>> We can evade the diagnosis by arguing that in practice one never
>> throws the dice in precisely the same way. Very small changes in the
>> initial conditions can alter the results. The underlying idea here is
>> that in situations where we can’t predict precisely what’s going to
>> happen next, it’s because there are aspects of the current situation
>> that we haven’t taken into account. Similar pleas of ignorance can
>> defend many other applications of probability from the accusation of
>> Einstein Insanity to which they are all exposed. If we did have full
>> access to reality, according to this argument, the results of our
>> actions would never be in doubt.
>
hanson wrote:
Parable of not, this tripe above is by far not a as cogent as what you
posted in your all time best tripe for SR & GR in
.         <http://tinyurl.com/Tears-for-Einsteins-Misery>             .
for which you must be given credit, kudos & at least 5 attaboys!
Taken care Sam! -- hanson
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Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 13:37 -0500
  Re: Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-14 15:35 -0500
  Re: Einstein’s Parable of Quantum Insanity "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-09-14 21:06 -0700
  Re: Einstein's Parable of Quantum Insanity Michael Strickland <michael06582@comcast.net> - 2015-09-19 05:40 -0700

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