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To: Upstate NY Guy

All this quantum stuff is fun to ridicule, but the weird part is that to the extent we’re able to test the hypotheses they turn out to be correct. A very great deal of our present technology, notably electronics, is based on it.

Sure quantum mechanics violates common sense, but this may be more an example of the limitations of common sense than of quantum mechanics. Of course, there are multiple competing and mutually contradictory versions of QM.

The more we learn about it, the more the universe, or possibly the multiverse, appears to be a very strange place.


25 posted on 10/18/2009 6:00:22 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: Sherman Logan
I do not mean to ridicule it at all. I have some real interest in it. I understand quantum mechanics is based on real, solid observable science. It is truly amazing to me. I do not quite know what to think of it. But it is apparent the universe at a quantum level is a very bizarre place.

When I first heard about quantum mechanics in a college physics class I couldn't believe it. I had to check it out further. I have continued to do so over the years.

The data leading to the theory of quantum mechanics is so strong and the implications are so huge you would think this would be all that today's philosophers and theologians would be talking about. The fact that they don't is very disappointing to me.

The fact that physicists are willing to consider truly bizarre theories to explain the data is very encouraging to me. I am all for the quest for truth.

Sorry if my comments sounded like I was mocking. I guess I mostly find is humorous that man is faced to ponder these bizarre conclusions.

33 posted on 10/18/2009 6:36:32 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Sherman Logan

How could we, in this universe, ever “see” or “detect” another universe, let alone many others? Unless we can so detect one , then this whole thing will always be a theory. Am I not correct?


44 posted on 10/18/2009 10:30:49 AM PDT by uscabjd
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