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• dirk.bruere commented on Snowflakes, or Oh, No! Not Again!
  Greg, the "thing" being imaged cannot detect that it is being imaged because no photons, or any other "influences" impinge upon it. The "thing" can be of arbitrary size. If you don't understand that then I can't help you, other than to advise you to read up on the subject....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Snowflakes, or Oh, No! Not Again!
  SO? The individual thing cannot detect. So what? Detection is performed elsewhere, isn't it, otherwise your experiment will have a null result. Detection elswhere counts as indirect, doesn't it? An IMAGE IS PRODUCED - you said so yourself. Production of that image is an act of (indirect) detection, isn't it? I think we may have a semantics problem here. A N Other problem, if you are determined to talk about not very sensitive quantised labaoratory detections, but humans sensing BSF. We cannot personally detect QM interactions - all our own detection apparatus is classical. That is bulk, aggregated signals, where...
• RDSouth commented on Snowflakes, or Oh, No! Not Again!
  Happy New Baktun! http://news.yahoo.com/mexicos-maya-heartland-greets-dawn-era-134951963.html I believe some scientists might point out that many experiments isolate individual particles. The "classicalness" of the detector is meaningless. Unless classicalness and unclassicalness is a magical justification for insisting that some things are just inexplicably mysterious and that's the height of reason. Schroedinger's equation works up to here and then we switch. Beyond that things are crazy. Don't even look at it. I am the great Oz....
• paws4thot commented on Snowflakes, or Oh, No! Not Again!
  Happy Solstice Day. And thanks for the link. I'll agree that some experiments are designed to isolate individual sub-atomic particles. Back at the original "Then take ... particle of justice or mercy. And ... be judged." argument, to detect particles of justice, mercy, or Dog, you first need a theory which tells you what type of particles they are, then you need to design and construct a detector for those particles. Greg may take this as a statement that Dog exists; it isn't. It's only a statement that the existence or otherwise of Dog has not been proven....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Snowflakes, or Oh, No! Not Again!
  paws Agree. I (merely) claim that "dog" is not detectable.... To prove me wrong, do some verifyable detection..... In the meantime, I will ignore any claims regarding dog....