biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) (06/01/87)
First of all: *Please* cross-post (and finally move) philosophical articles to sci.philosophy.tech, as people in sci.physics get bored with them, and S.P.T is especially designed for (among others) these discussions. What about not collapsing a wave-function, but making it uncollapsable? Suppose I could split a moron into two half-wits in such a way that both half-wits had the same (say) impuls. Now I could measure the impuls of one of them with any degree of accuracy I might want. But, as the two half-wits have the same impulse, by doing so I would know the impulse of the other hals-wit to the same degree of accuracy. Now, what would happen if I tried to measure its location? The first photograph of a non-collapsed wave-function? To avoid flames: for "same impuls" read "opposite impuls", and for impuls/location read your pet duo of incommensurables. -- Biep. (biep@cs.vu.nl via mcvax) "Law" is the name given to a collection of rules describing how to act with people that do not follow the law.