🚀 go-pugleaf

John Baez you are abdicating your responsibility for intellectual honesty.
Yes,I am persistent the way Bohr was persistent. I have answered every
objection that Ramsay made. I thibnk our major point of disagreement is
over whether |a,e,+> is orthogonal or parallel to |a,o,->. Ramsay saus
orthogonal and I say parallel. I say paralle for physical reasons - they
represent same state of polarization. Ramsay says orthogonal because he
thinks falsely that unitarity requires it.

No there is room for honest debate here. It is smug , arrogant, and foolish
of you to think that the foundations of quantum mechanics, especially the
informal language of how to properly connect abstract formalism to physical
operations, is so pat and well understood. All the great masters warn us
not to fall into the hubris that you so blatantly display - also some of
the others.

In any case I hope the inquisitors - the orthodox priests of the Grand
Illusion that there even is "an orthodox" or "standard" quantum mechanics
will not succeed in supressing freedom on thought. And I hope the others
out there keep an independent frame of mind and not fall into line with
the rest of the sheep of academe. Remember "What do you care what other
people think?"