Re: [Phys-l] Reality versus models of realty

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>]

What experiment could test your definition of reality?  Using your 
definition, can you describe an experiment that tests whether or not Mars 
is real?
			Regards,
				Jack

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, D.V.N. Sarma wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:08 AM, ludwik kowalski <
> kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu> wrote:
>
> > I would say that real is what would exist if all humans disappeared.
> > Planets, for example, are real.
> > Ludwik
> > =========
> Who knows what would be there?
> Right now we are not sure of the nature of the world around us.
> Our knowledge of the world is through the filters of our senses.
> Thus we do not know what actually is out there.
> QM is  reaching the conclusion reality does not exist when
> we are not observing it.
> Very close to the advaitic school "by looking we create the world".
> If you remove observer(s), the question of existence of reality
> in their absence, becomes unverifiable and meaningless.
>
> regards,
> Sarma.
>
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