A word on Ayn Rand and Quantum Mechanics

[Charles Bell]

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>>"The Idiot" <peterdjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Rand herself was able to conclude that Quantum Mechanics was wrong . . .
>>> without performing a single experiement
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>>Rand only concluded that the Copenhagen Interpretation was wrong.
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> Citation?
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<< The only thing that concerns philosophy is that we can say: whatever it
is, it will have to be what it is, and no contradictions claimed about it
will be valid-as for instance, the current theories about a particle that
goes from one place to another without crossing the places in between. Now
you see that is metaphysically impossible, and you don't have to be a
scientist to know that. A philosopher can tell you without ever entering a
laboratory that that is not possible. But for a philosopher to attempt to
define what kind of particle it has to be, or how we will determine its
properties, that is unwarranted and Rationalistic. That is the province of
science, not philosophy. >> ITOE, Appendix, Philosophy of Science (1966?)

Copenhagen Interpretation (1927): (1) the Uncertainty Principle [Heisenberg]
and (2) the Principle of Complementarity [Bohr] - wave/particle duality -
loss of propositional logic (3) loss of the Principle of Locality

Rand was mostly referring to (3) "a particle that goes from one place to
another without crossing the places in between." -- actually, quantum
entanglement and loss of "locality" but the problems for realism and the Law
of Indentity is clear in (1) and (2).

For: Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli and von Neumann

Against: Einstein, Schroedinger, de Broglie, Planck, Bohm, Popper, EPR
Paradox (1935). . . . Ayn Rand . . . without performing a single
experiment.

For/Against: Bell's Inequality (1964)

Experiments on Bell's Theorem (1980's continuing to today)

To say that Rand "was able to conclude that Quantum Mechanics wrong" in
1966 "without performing a single experiment" was to say that Rand was as
smart as Einstein in 1935 who, until his death, maintaining to universal
realism and the Principle of Locality, thought Quantum Mechanics was
"incomplete".