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Re: What about Points? A Pointless Thread - 11-23-2006, 09:26 AM

When we see particles isn't it always on a screen? Is it not that the point represents information but is nothing itself. The particle/ point is description as it cannot be observed directly. The point/ particle in my view is where fundamental matter/ energy enters reality (through measurement) at the ground floor of the cosmos. The undisturbed and virgin state of matter however has to remain undetermined, described by a propabilty function. Were electrons confined to orbits like planets around the sun and were electrons solid objects of something with predetermined positions at all times, then interaction and evolution, the agent of change, the fundamental engine of time and reality would be impossible. Change is only possible if we have indeterminism built in at the fundamental level, time is only possible if we have a chance for change


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