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Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix

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From: Andrew Mullhaupt
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:35
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In article <6201@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:

>My view is realistic: I believe that there exists a reality, independant
>wether we know this or not. The main thing QM has to learn us about this
>is that the interaction between observers and the rest of reality is not
>always neglectable.


>Therefore, I believe in only one reality. This reality can be described
>by science. I've never seen any hint that there exists anything more.

There seems to be some hint from the modern philosophers that there
might exist considerably _less_ than a fully independent 'objective'
reality.

Bernard D'Espagnat's book _Reality and the Physicist_ is at least one
fairly authoritative physical view to the contrary of realism.

Later,
Andrew Mullhaupt
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From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
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Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
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Date: 11 Nov 92 18:35:04 GMT
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