Re: Physics is not metaphysics

"Ken S. Tucker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bilge) wrote in message
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| >Tom Roberts:
| > >On 11/27/2003 2:27 PM, Bilge wrote:
| > >>  Robert J. Kolker:
| > >>  >It is an impossibility. If you posit a Cause, I will ask the Cause
of
| > >>  >the Cause.
| > >>   Quantum mechanics is acausal and offers a way out of that problem.
| > >
| > >Actually, classical mechanics and classical electrodynamics are also
| > >acausal. For instance, charge and E fields are CORRELATED, but neither
| > >one "causes" the other, as far as the equations of the theory go. If
one
| > >gives billiard balls initial conditions such that they collide, what
| > >"caused" the collision? -- clearly it was YOUR CHOICE OF PROBLEM that
| > >did so, not anything in the equations of mechanics itself.
| >
| >  That is quite a diffferent issue that the quantum mechanical case.
| >Regardless of how you choose the "problem", you can not attribute
| >radioactive decay to any cause.
|
| Tucker diagrees. As an example I'll refer to the
| conventional
|
| Neutron decay given by N -> P+e+neutrino. (0)

I thought this is anti-electron neutrino.

| and  suggest, that a particle (like a Neutron)
| in an anti-neutrino current  does this,
|
| N+anti-neutrino -> P+e           (1)

so this should be v_e +n --> p + (e-)

But we get the drift.  Here is a link that shows the interactions.

http://www.physik.uni-mainz.de/exakt/aSPECT/Universality_of_Neutron_Decay.ht
ml

I think there is a mistake on the diagram of the first one.

| (where the anti-neutrino is causitive)
|
| and balances spin and all, and
|
| is indistiguishable from (0),.
| EXCEPT (1) is casual.
|
| Therefore, I suggest the radioactive decay
| rate is casual, and not probabilistic.

Hmmm.  I wonder if this is true?  I think it is maybe casual and
probabilistic.  The "amount" of cause is governed by the probabilities of
interaction from the neutrino current.  If that is the case, it is like a
big feedback loop; everything eventually causes everything else.  Hehe.
Well, maybe that is not so far from the "truth".

FrediFizzx