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To: mrjesse
As to all matter being waves, I'm not ready to accept that one yet. How does the Stern-Gerlach experiment prove that matter is waves?

The Stern-Gerlach experiment proves that particles have intrinsic quantum numbers, eg, intrinsic angular momentum or spin. However, the other poster, by reasonings unknown, derives from this result, that matter is made of "waves of nothing." With respect to quantum-mechanical type experiments, people generally say that matter manifests wave-like or particle-like behaviors depending on what you are measuring, and leave it like that. However, to some, this comes to mean, by a slight of metaphysical hand, that matter is made of nothing. We might as well conclude that everything is nothing, and nothing exist. So, the Stern-Gerlach experiment proves that neither you nor I nor the other poster exists. See? That's Science. How can you argue with Science?

396 posted on 06/26/2008 11:14:05 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
The Stern-Gerlach experiment proves that particles have intrinsic quantum numbers, eg, intrinsic angular momentum or spin. However, the other poster, by reasonings unknown, derives from this result, that matter is made of "waves of nothing."

You are trying to lump different posts together. Show me where I said that I can derive "waves of nothing" from the Stern-Gerlach experiment.

We might as well conclude that everything is nothing, and nothing exist. So, the Stern-Gerlach experiment proves that neither you nor I nor the other poster exists. See? That's Science. How can you argue with Science?

Since you are trying to improperly lump my posts together, you should also recall that I said that that matter is an emergent property of those waves of nothing. I am certainly not claiming that nothing exists.

406 posted on 06/28/2008 7:27:24 AM PDT by LeGrande
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