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No current interpretation suggests something actually being in two states at once, but rather that the thing is in superposition of those two states. Schrodinger was specifically criticizing the idea that things can be in a "smeared out" or "blurred" state (depending upon the tr...

^ I would say there is no need to be an asshole, but there is a need, as humans generally are evil by their nature. It is something you cannot help, and growing to understand this makes the personal attacks less upsetting, as I understand it is just your instinct and largely not controllable. Just m...

It's a thought experiment and was never meant to be taken literally. Schroedinger himself came up with it to demonstrate the absurdity of quantum mechanics. Not quantum mechanics, but a specific interpretation of quantum mechanics. Schrodinger introduced the thought experiment in his paper "Th...

Causality should not be understood in terms of causal changes. As the materialist philosopher Friedrich Engels had pointed out long ago, cause and effect are ambiguous and can depend upon context, sometimes even switching places with each other depending upon how to you phrase the same problem, and ...

That's not what I was taught. As I understand it, the more confined an electron, again loosely analogous to being in a tighter orbit, the less energy it has, because, energy levels being quantised, the atom has to lose energy in the form of a photon for an electron to make the quantum leap. Electro...

But, 'principles' are just thoughts within human heads, or are just said and written words. Which, obviously, do not prevent, nor cause, 'electrons' to do what you say and claim, here...Once again, 'that principle' exists in 'thought'. I was only talking about mathematical consistency of the theory...

Not sure how an electrons momentum increases as its energy decreases. That is not what I wrote. The uncertainty principle prevents the electron from falling into the nucleus. Metaphysical statements like "it's not a particle" doesn't address anything, that's metaphysics. Doesn't matter ho...

I don't know much about black holes and I'm not sure what you mean here. As far as I understand, 'singularity' as in infinite density/spacetime curvature depending on yer underdetermined preference is contentious in itself. What evidence do we have about movement inside black holes? That is just wh...

Inside of a black hole, objects move towards the singularity at the center. That is the opposite of what we observe in our universe. It would make more sense to ask if our universe exists inside of a white hole. Interestingly, Loop Quantum Gravity predicts black holes will turn into white holes so f...

So, sorry to be so sodding dim, but when observation determines the immediately prior real indeterminate spin of one of a tangled pair, does experimentation empirically prove that the other is always pre-determined as opposite, to date? (And, of course, c is conserved). Knowledge can evolve nonloca...

Anyway does the above mean that you explain the experimental evidence for nonlocal correlations with a universal, time-symmetric determinism, universal as in it also includes the quantum world? Since the Two-State Vector Formalism is mathematically equivalent to quantum mechanics and adds no additi...

EPR At the EPR (spooky action-at-a-distance, quantum entanglement) the distance doesn't play any role. Distance is no matter. Interactions occur instantaneously. No evidence of that. The EPR paradox was meant as a criticism of people who believe in ψ-completeness, as an appeal to absurdity, not an ...

The weirdness of quantum theory is largely self-imposed. The EPR paper demonstrates that if you believe the wave function is a complete description of the physical system, it leads to absurdities. Ever since Bell's theorem, people just accepted that maybe quantum mechanics is absurd, and so they sta...

It is self-explanatory 'contextualization' is a mental [mind] activity, therefore requires mind [as defined https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind]. I was talking about context, not contextualization which is obviously very different. It's like the difference between the words society and socialization...

This is odd, how can it be contextualized which require a mind if no mind or consciousness are involved.There are no absolutely mind-independent object that 'send' signal as appearances; but there is mind-related appearance appearing to the mind-related empirical self. Why do you think contextualiz...