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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2004 55(2):365-370; doi:10.1093/bjps/55.2.365
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On a (Supposedly) Plausible Extension of Newtonian Collision Dynamics

Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia

Departamento de Lógica y Filosofia de la Ciencia, Facultad de Filología, Universidad del País Vasco, c/ Paseo de la Universidad, 5, 01006 Vitoria – Gasteiz, Spain ylppelaj{at}vc.ehu.es

In a recent volume of this journal, L. Angel ([2002]) proposed a collision mechanics leading to such strange results as the possibility that a particle may be in several places at the same time, or the existence of unprepared spatially-separated correlations. I will here show that neither of these results follows from his theory or, if it does, the theory, contrary to what Angel claims, is not a plausible extension of Newtonian collision dynamics.

  1. No bilocation
  2. No quantum leap
  3. No unprepared spatially-separated correlations


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