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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:31:20 -0800, "FrediFizzx" <fredifizzx@hotmail.com> wrote:

>"Tom Roberts" <tjroberts@lucent.com> wrote in message
>news:bolknd$kbl@netnews.proxy.lucent.com...
>| 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.

 Energy doesn't come in chunks it is manifested in chunks due to
 the nature of the interacting elements...

 Paul Stowe