I don’t think so, with the slight change from “QM is wrong” to “QM is limited in its applicability, just like Newtonian physics”.
Fair enough. I suppose one could say that the problems with combining QM and general relativity suggest that QM needs to be modified, but so far we don’t have experimental evidence for anything but pure QM, I believe.
But in any case, in this thread you operate in a black-and-white world of “zero probability” and “non-zero probability”. I am pointing out that the set of zero-probability events is empty.
Well, our discussion spun off from a comment where lisper claimed that surely there are situations where death is inevitable. I countered by saying that as far as I know, there’s always some way to survive that has a non-zero probability according to quantum mechanics, so that’s where the emphasis on zero vs non-zero probability originally came. Note that the view advocated in the original post views the formalism of quantum mechanics as an accurate description at all scales and also says that all events with a non-zero probability will happen (but that the ones we end up not observing are not something we should care about).
Fair enough. I suppose one could say that the problems with combining QM and general relativity suggest that QM needs to be modified, but so far we don’t have experimental evidence for anything but pure QM, I believe.
Well, our discussion spun off from a comment where lisper claimed that surely there are situations where death is inevitable. I countered by saying that as far as I know, there’s always some way to survive that has a non-zero probability according to quantum mechanics, so that’s where the emphasis on zero vs non-zero probability originally came. Note that the view advocated in the original post views the formalism of quantum mechanics as an accurate description at all scales and also says that all events with a non-zero probability will happen (but that the ones we end up not observing are not something we should care about).