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To: PatrickHenry
Why do I always find crap like that in articles written for a popular audience. If it isn't crap, I'm really missing something.

An example of outcome-based journalism, I guess.

"Physicist" has already, and thankfully, spared my from trying to explain what the author really meant. Funny, isn't it, that his "explanations" are invariably more succinct and precise than the original "quote" that he is explaining.

Now, if I only knew what a "Compton wavelength" is, I'd be all set .... I guess looking that up is a reasonable exercise for the student.

20 posted on 10/17/2001 9:25:08 AM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow; Physicist
Now, if I only knew what a "Compton wavelength" is, I'd be all set .... I guess looking that up is a reasonable exercise for the student.

How are the Compton and de Broglie wavelengths related?

Day one of quantum class from hell: "The wavefunction contains all knowable information about the system. Extracting it is an exercise left to the student. Good day."

21 posted on 10/17/2001 11:22:55 AM PDT by Chemist_Geek
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