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To: GregoryFul
Speaking of irony, here's another interesting article About the Quantum Measurement Problem
189 posted on 02/02/2002 9:52:38 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
Thanks, that was an interesting read. I guess I'm of the "hidden variables" camp.

I wonder if you've run across some exposition on other paradox in the current physics. One is the "twin paradox" where one brother rockets off into space at 0.99 C for a period of time and comes back to earth to find his twin brother quite older. Now since the time dilation is due to relative speeds, how come the earth bound brother is not younger, having speed off from his rocketship bound brother at 0.99 C? What happens if both rocket off in opposite directions (but in a circular path), so that they meet sometime in the future? Who will be older?

Or another strange paradox: how did the universe expand outside of the Swartzchild radius after the big-bang? I mean, here we have the hypothesis that all matter may eventually collapse into black holes that it can never escape from, and the opposite hypothesis that the universe originated from a singularity that was obviously smaller than the Swartzchild radius for the matter contained in the universe.

190 posted on 02/04/2002 4:56:16 PM PST by GregoryFul
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