X-Message-Number: 8289 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 97 14:20:08 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Hidden Variables, Tipler From: "Perry E. Metzger" <> >Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me that Bell's Theorem >makes hidden variable theories impossible. Not impossible, but very strange, in that they must then be non-local, with "spooky action at a distance," i.e. faster-than-light interconnections between events. (In the original "disproof" of hidden variables by von Neumann it was assumed that locality held, in keeping with relativity.) Actually, the only version of QM in which locality holds, as far as I know, is many-worlds. As for Tipler's Omega Point Theory, I agree that the whole thing depends on too many conditionals, all of which must be true, and it seems doubtful to me too. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8289