Re: Another Response to Richard Gill's 10,000 Euros Challeng
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 12:06 am
gill1109 wrote:FrediFizzx wrote:gill1109 wrote:What's in a name? A variable is a variable. The word "variable" belongs to mathematics. When we call a variable hidden we are adding physical interpretations to a mathematical model. Not directly observable yet "behind the scenes" causing things to be how they are.
Do you still think the experimenters in the real experiment need to know something or anything about the hidden variables? If so, why?
The experimenters need to follow unambiguous instructions. They don't need to "know" about the different theories they are testing. Not once the experimental protocol is written down.
So they don't need to know anything about the hidden variables at all. Correct? If you don't think that is correct, then please explain why they would need to know about the hidden variables.
It seems pretty simple to me. They record the angular momentum directions at particular angles for a and b, then take those results and calculate the correlations per Joy's eq. (16). That is all they have to do. There is nothing else. Their results will either show -a.b, or not or maybe they might discover something inbetween. They don't need to know anything about the simulations if they don't want to. But if you are trying to simulate what Nature might be doing to suit a certain theory, you will have to have those hidden variables in the simulation that the theory says are in Nature.
Ok, that is the last time I am going to explain it. Either you get it or you don't.