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To: alnitak
"To a layman like me, Lynds seems to be saying that time and space aren't quantized. In other words, quantum theory is blown out of the water????!!!?? That would be hugh."

It may be that he is saying that even the most macroscopic processes are quantized. Instead of moments in time, perhaps we should think of constantly changing vectors (this would still preserve the notion of causality and still allow for quantum uncertainty).
37 posted on 07/31/2003 8:25:27 AM PDT by Socratic (A little questioning couldn't hurt.)
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39 posted on 07/31/2003 8:27:04 AM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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41 posted on 07/31/2003 8:27:55 AM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: Socratic
Space and time are not quantized in most representations of quantum mechanics. A free particle may occupy any spatial position. A constrained particle may have quantized positions.
44 posted on 07/31/2003 8:35:10 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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