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"Tom Roberts" <tjroberts@lucent.com> wrote in message
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| Dio wrote:
| > Why does relativity interest so many people? I think that QM is
more
| > interesting and that has upset our space time knowledge.
Nevertheless
| > relativity interests people.
|
| Fundamental theories of physics are IMHO intrinsically interesting.
|
| Around here, I think there is another effect going on: SR is clearly
| counterintuitive to people not experienced in applying it, and yet
the
| underlying math is simple enough that all too many people delude
| themselves into thinking they understand where SR "went wrong". To
those
| of us who are experienced in applying SR, it is quite clear that
100% of
| the people around here who claim SR is "flawed" really do not
understand
| SR, and it is their personal understanding that is flawed, not SR
itself.
|
| Of course NONE of them will admit this, because their personal
| lack of understanding includes the inability to understand where
| they themselves went wrong (:-().
|
|
| For Quantum Mechanics, on the other hand, the underlying mathematics
| (operators on Hilbert space) is so complicated that nobody can
easily
| delude themselves that they understand it.
|
| I agree that QM is incredibly interesting, and requires a much more
| fundamental change in our perception of the world than does SR, or
even GR.

I actually believe the key to understanding QM lies in the ideas of
SR.  Once you realize that there is really two things going on with
QM.  One is the idea that spacetime is being defined at the quantum
level.  Especially time.  If "things" are in some kind of local
oscillatory motion at c, then basicaly time is almost meaningless.
Quantum fuzziness sets in and we have to resort to probabilities to
make sense of it.  The other part is simply that energy comes in
chunks.

FrediFizzx