Wednesday, October 7, 2015

"The demise of causality"

“THE claim, which has no justification in quantum mechanics, is the essence of the standard philosophical interpretation of quantum mechanics put together by Werner Heisenberg and especially Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen. (This is why it is customarily referred to as the Copenhagen philosophy of mechanics.) Both took a basic consequence of quantum mechanics about the possibility of measuring certain interactions with complete accuracy for the justification of the following proposition if not plain somersault in logic: an interaction that cannot be measured exactly, cannot take place exactly. And in the same breath they began to celebrate the demise of causality, with the consequent enthronization of chance.”

~Stanley L. Jaki: The Savior of Science, Ch. 3.

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