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How determined are you?

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JustinC
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11-02-2005 5:51 PM

Observables are definately indeterminstic, right? If this is not true then I don't think I know anything about quantum mechanics.
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If observables are indeterministic, and all we observe are observables, by definition, wouldn't the world in which observe be indeterministic?
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Are you saying that the world which we observe isn't "real" and that we should consider the world to be evolving wave functions? In which case, since they evolve determistically, the world is deterministic.
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Is this in the ballpark?
  
JustinC
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11-02-2005 5:58 PM

That last message was for cavediver, sorry I didn't use the right reply button.
  
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