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To: grey_whiskers

>>Or someone who is too-heavily grounded in classical physics, Road Runner cartoons excepted.<<

Uh, OK.

Cheers to you as well.


70 posted on 10/25/2009 5:24:54 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003
Think of the common contrast between quantum and classical mechanics (double-slit experiment, tunneling, quantization of electronic states for just a few examples); and between relativity and classical mechanics (speed of light constant irrespective of frame of reference, no preferred ("inertial") reference frame, light affected by gravity, black holes).

Most of these are going to be "counter-intuitive"; the Road Runner cartoons are based on counter-intuitive perversions of classical physics, but they still show imagination and "perspective" (thinking outside the box).

Cheers!

75 posted on 10/25/2009 6:41:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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