Posted by Reilly Atkinson on September 03, 1999 at 01:51:45:

In Reply to: Re: Agresive Criticism posted by Mezei on September 02, 1999 at 10:25:14:

Don -- Interesting indeed. Your singular source is pretty much like the Big Bang. The duality it creates, then, is composed of energy and matter, which, of course, can be transformed into each other.

Another thought about causality vs.polarity. One of the peculiar aspects of chaos theory and/or non-linear dynamics is that there are causal systems that for all intensive puposes behave in a random fashion. They would be observed as random systems. Is it live, or is it Memorex?

Except when teaching undergraduates, physicists don't typically worry about the wave-particle duality that is observed in Nature. You are quite right, the wave is causal, described by the deterministic Schrodinger equation. The solutions of this equation determine the probablities governing the electrons or photons behavior.

Bohr's point was that phenomena at the microscopic, atomic level need not and do not operate the same way as macroscopic phenomena -- macroscopic concepts do not necessarily apply at the atomic level. Sort of: accept what's there, and don't worry about it.

That's what professional physicists do, for the most part -- duality is given period. To some degree, the wave or particle is an artifact of the measuring process. Wave particle duality: we accept, but somewaht under duress.

Great posting.

Thanks
Reilly

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