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To: FredZarguna
I don't know what your local college is, but there is no mainstream Physicist who doesn't believe in QM. None.

Really? Beside that one professor, at the beginning of almost every book I've read on the subject, there's always a quiet "debate" between the two sciences, as if there's some kind of scientific struggle going on behind the scenes.
I'm glad you told me that. I'm not a science major, but Quantum physics fascinates me. I'm thrilled to learn there is no more debate. It's an amazing science, but when I try to explain it to some one, the scientific jargon escapes me. (I'm not well versed in that at all.)

111 posted on 08/24/2011 5:04:10 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics
There aren't two distinct sciences. Quantum Mechanics includes Newtonian Mechanics as a specialized, limited case. There is even a rule of thumb called "the Correspondence Principle" in QM which specifies that in the limit of large quantum numbers you are supposed to be able to get back to the same results as classical physics (what you are calling "Newtonian.")
112 posted on 08/24/2011 5:13:00 PM PDT by FredZarguna (The power of the greatest rock band of all time--now a crack legal team. Coming to ABC this fall!)
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To: concerned about politics

There is a debate, but it’s not a debate about which one exists. It’s just a fact that relativistic physics don’t work on a quantum scale, and quantum physics don’t work on a relativistic scale. The debates center on the “why” of this phenomenon, and as of yet, there is no provable answer.


144 posted on 08/25/2011 10:49:54 AM PDT by Melas (u)
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