[General] Experiment

[Roychoudhuri, Chandra]

Hodge:
I like your logic. Mostly.
However, “emergences” to me are, yet-to-be-understood unknown chain of causations in nature.
     In this “picture”, there is absolutely no demarcation between classical and quantum worlds. They are one and the same nature.
     Human minds have been creating all the “necessary” demarcations in the process of grasping nature with their powerful, but diverse, and still evolving limited thinking logics!

Chandra.

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On Oct 26, 2017, at 6:26 AM, Hodge John <jchodge at frontier.com<mailto:jchodge at frontier.com>> wrote:

IMO experiment only rejects models. Thus, several different models may not be rejected by an experiment. So the challenge is to have a model with the fewest experimental rejections. For example, entanglement experiments reject SR. All the currently popular models have experiments that reject them. Our understanding grows when a new model is not rejected by more observations. This is done by creating a model that reduces to current models (GR and QM) when limiting parameters are considered. That the new model may explain some of the experiment/observations currently rejected helps. IMO ad hoc changes to current models such as inflation, dark matter, and wave/particle duality only make advance more difficult.

Causation is a postulate.  I like the emergent type model rather than the reductionist view.

Hodge
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