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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by wnoise on Thursday August 11, 2016 @10:43PM (#12273114)
It's not that they don't take it seriously -- it's that it's boring and says nothing useful. Yes, everything could be a giant conspiracy that makes it appear as if the standard ways of approaching quantum mechanics are simple, nice, and right, but ...
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Re:What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physic... by devishard on Friday August 12, 2016 @04:27PM (#12278548)
That's not what superdeterminism would indicate at all.

"Conspiracy" indicates free will on a large number of actors.

And a superdeterministic system could exist which differs from standard ways of approaching quantum mechanics. One obvious way in which it could exist is if our means of gathering data remain as limited as they are currently--i.e. we don't ever find a way around Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and therefore can't ever model quanta deterministically. Superdeterminism doesn't mean that we'd always be able to measure the deterministic phenomena.

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