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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
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Subject: Re: Re. Is the Universe predictable?
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 00:56:15 EST
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	From hao!hull (Howard Hull):
>        ...I am left to remain of the position that ours is an observational
> context.  It appears to me that limits placed on our ability to observe
> prevent us from finding out whether the situation is determined or not
> determined.  Our observational capacity, which may be broken down into the
> classes of "absolute" and "statistical" vary, depending on the class of
> objects we are observing.  Since we do not have absolute observational
> capacity for every object in our observable universe, we cannot know if we
> are living in a determined universe or not.  Period.  The End.

	I'm getting more and more confused. My (layman's) understanding
was that the Aspect experiment had eliminated the possibility of the
"hidden variable" theories which maintained that quantum events could
be causally determined in a more than statistical way. Physics gurus,
help: is it, or is it not, now *known* that the universe is not deterministic,
at least at the subatomic level?

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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