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Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.
I've said that science supports what mystics and philosophers have been saying for years and I listed experiments to support what I'm saying.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: neoholographic
How? The experiment matches scientific prediction so it confirms science.
Yet another blow to scientific realism.
There's a lot of inconsistency in what that term even means:
philsci-archive.pitt.edu...
It is perhaps only a slight exaggeration to say that scientific realism is characterized differently by every author who discusses it
The experiment confirms quantum mechanics. It doesn't confirm quantum woo.
What we observe is consistent with our model of quantum mechanics. I can't say there's no mystery in QM, as we don't have all the answers, but that's no reason to invoke claims of quantum woo.
Quantum woo is the justification of irrational beliefs by an obfuscatory reference to quantum physics.
...The logical process runs something like this:
I want magic to exist.
I don't understand quantum.
Therefore, quantum could mean magic exists.
Concepts such as "non-locality" or "quantum probability waves" or "uncertainty principle" have become social memes of a kind where people inherently recognize that something "strange" is going on. Practitioners of fraudulent and silly ideas can tap into this feeling of mystery to push their sham concepts...
Schrodinger also hated it because of what QM implied.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
How? The experiment matches scientific prediction so it confirms science.
There's a lot of inconsistency in what that term even means:
philsci-archive.pitt.edu...
Classical Materialism
Materialism originated in ancient Greek philosophy during the 6th century b.c.e., and in China and India around the same time, if not even earlier. In Greece in the 5th century the atomists Leucippus and Democritus argued that all that existst is matter (in the form of limitless number of tiny indivisible partcles - atoms) and empty space, and that the differences in the sense objects are due to variations in the size and shape of atoms and their combinations
The atomism of Democritus and Leucippus was strenuosly challanged by the great Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, although it found a supporter in Epicurus in the 4th century BCE.
Experiments confirming quantum entanglement date back to the early 1980s:
originally posted by: theabsolutetruth
It probably isn't the first experimental proof. Thread from last year.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
In the early 1980s, while working on his PhD thesis[1] from the lesser academic rank of lecturer, he performed the elusive "Bell test experiments" that showed that Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen's reductio ad absurdum of quantum mechanics, namely that it implied 'ghostly action at a distance', did in fact appear to be realised when two particles were separated by an arbitrarily large distance (see EPR paradox).
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Posting the experiment is fine and there's no dispute about that. It's the claim that it shows mystics were right all along that's in dispute as it does no such thing.
originally posted by: Bicent76
a reply to: neoholographic
yea I find it interesting you immediately get attacked on ats, for posting the results of a experiment on ats...
originally posted by: Bedlam
If you'd like to logically support the claim that the Akashic Records are now proven to be true due to the paper cited, I'd love to hear you out. Please. Elucidate.
So neo says the science proves mystics were right all along.
originally posted by: BlueMule
Yes, it does. The problem is that your science background has not prepared you to understand mystics.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
So neo says the science proves mystics were right all along.
originally posted by: BlueMule
Yes, it does. The problem is that your science background has not prepared you to understand mystics.
Now you're saying that science hasn't prepared me for what science is telling me...which is that the mystics were right...wait, what?
That doesn't even make any sense.
originally posted by: yorkshirelad
The probability of tossing a coin and being heads is 50% or tails 50%. Since neither is zero then before being tossed (observed) it must be both heads and tails at the same time.