William Morse  wrote in message
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> jimmcginn{at}yahoo.com (Jim McGinn) wrote in
> news:b4iev4$2mhi$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org: 
> 
> > William Morse  wrote 
> > 
> >> > Now the big questions:
> >> > 
> >> > Is chance an entity?
> >> > 
> >> > Is randomness an entity?
> >> > 
> >> > Is drift an entity? 
> >> 
> >> Yes. (Note that I would say they are all the same entity).An entity
> >> is a "separate existence", and it is certainly
possible to look at
> >> chance as a  separate existence, as a thing we have to contend with,
> >> as "Lady Luck". 
> > 
> > Does it have a location?  Is it measurable?  Can it be weighed?  
> > 
> > 
> 
> Well, you snipped the only interesting part of my follow and left in my 
> argument for argument's sake. But since you ask:
> 
> Does a photon in the classic interference experiment have a location?

Since we can't measure it I guess you can assume anything you wish. 
My answer to the question is, yes.  But I realize that we can never
know.


 Is it 
> measurable (without changing its momentum or position)?.

We have no control over it's momentum or position, so this question is
irrelevant.


 And a photon has 
> no rest mass, so it can't be weighed. Is a photon then not an entity? :-)

We'd have to account for these discrepancies in our definition.

Jim
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