Totally OT: Quantum Mechanics proof for the existence of a Supreme Conciousness?

[boyd]

I've been reading a little bit more about quantum physics, and you're  
right. As far as I can tell it's a bunch of scientific theories for  
calculating...well... I'm not quite sure what it's calculating. Most stuff  
I heard about quantum mechanics before was the kind of philophising that  
occurs in that article. It seems people are mixing these two quite  
different things up. Or maybe just me.

Greetz,
Boyd.
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:20:39 +0100, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> boyd:
>> It seems to me that quantum physics is just an admittance that we don't
>> really know what the heck is going on. It's not science, it's  
>> philosophy.
>
> Well, we aren't sure what a gravity field is (despite there are few  
> theories for that too), still we can use newtonian laws (with a bit of  
> help from relativistic ones when necessary) to predict certain future  
> parameters of certain physical systems.
> Predicting the future is one of main kinds of science.
> Quantum physics doesn't know much what's the underlaying metaphysics,  
> but it allows us to make very precise (and very useful in practice)  
> predictions about certain aspects of certain physical systems (sometimes  
> up to 13 digits of precision!) so that's science too ;-)
> "Science" doesn't imply understanding everything below the level you  
> experiment too, you can have black boxes too.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile