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From: "Flammarion" <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
To: "Everything List" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology
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> On 16 Sep, 21:42, "m.a." <marty....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Flammarion" <peterdjo....domain.name.hidden>
>> To: "Everything List" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:25 AM
>> Subject: Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology
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>> > On 16 Sep, 15:51, "m.a." <marty....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>> >> the ocean of virtual particles which may give
>> >> rise to all "real" particles exists somewhere between matter and
>> >> thought.
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>> > I see no reason to believe that.
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>> I would be most interested in your view of vacuum fluctuations of virtual
>> particles.
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> Why would they differ from what he WP article says?
Brent Meeker's interpretation of the WP article seems to agree with my
description.
" Most physicists (who bother to think about it) don't
regard the virtual
particles as 'real' because they are, by construction, not observable. They
are just a
calculational device." From post dated 16 Sept. 15:51
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Received on Thu Sep 17 2009 - 09:12:06 PDT