Physicists bid farewell to reality?

Nature ^ | 4/18/07 | Philip Ball

[tranzorZ]

this guy has gone from physics to making a philosophical argument. His opinion is no more relevant then anyone else.

To the professor: what is reality a? well my name is Grimmjaw jaggerjack and I’m gonna eat your soul. AHAHAHAHAHA!

[SuziQ]

Quantum ping!

[stefanbatory]

One day, Werner Heisenberg was pulled over for speeding. The Police officer asked him: “Do you know how fast you were going?”

Werner replied: “No, but I knew exactly where I was.”

[MHGinTN]

And I was trying to be so series ...

[Frank Sheed]

Have you heard of this? I’m speechless!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820369/posts

[neuron2]

The whole QM magic show is debunked here:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/7001651u4726jk51/

[beezdotcom]

Just because their statistics don’t come out, they conclude that the universe is bazaar beyond belief.

It's a big sale? That IS strange...

[MHGinTN]

I have a beautiful niece/relative who lives in K-ville in the age range of this couple. I had no knowledge of this heinous evil. Reading the particulars will now haunt my mind for a time.

[Getready]

...”objects governed by the laws of quantum mechanics”...

I don’t want to be an obscurantist, but if the scientific
community doesn’t know what “reality” is at the Planck
length level, how would they know that “objects are
governed by the laws of quantum mechanics?”
I think they have a BELIEF that the objects are governed
by some law or laws but until they know and verify those
laws it is still a BELIEF. It is quite obvious that the
concepts and laws that are currently acceptable are
not capable of elucidating the workings of nature.
The hopeful belief is that we will eventually figure it all
out..but that is still yet to be seen.

[mkmensinger]

I think Parmenides tried something like this 2400 years ago. Socrates kicked his butt.

[Reaganesque]

LOL!

[Oberon]

Pardon me, but isn’t this rather a restatement of the proposition of Schrödinger’s Cat?

[Reaganesque]

Here's an easy way to remember the difference:

Normal Physics

Quantum Physics

Any questions?

[ew73]

Is there a relationship with Quantum Mechanics?

[MHGinTN]

I know you cannot help me to understand this stuff now, but I’m pinging you anyway, my FRiend. Rest in Peace big guy, you have all the answers now.

[woofie]

Im having a hard time with normal physics

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"But we have a little more evidence that the world is really strange."

For proof-positive that the world is really strange, look no further than here. VDH defines an alternative reality that I would dearly love to live in.

[Reaganesque]

No comment.

[newguy357]

Seems like physics now is just an academic exercise to fill in the details and confirm the genius of great minds long dead.

While I tend to feel the same way, remember that everyone said the same thing in the 1890s.... In fact, I believe it was the parents of Max Planck who told their son not to go into physics since everything was already solved.... We could just as well be on the brink of another revolution...we just need another Einstein to come along.